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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I should probably just stick to my stuff.” The milk carton probably

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... through the Rhodes intervew process :) Third: Life updates. My life has

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  , not simply difficult." - QUESTION 1 In my opinion, there are four ... them my way. [email protected].

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... guessed that people at M.I.T. are interested in anime. Oh well ... +1 on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  recommendation forms are available for download from your MyMIT application portal ... received and processed the letter on your MyMIT tracking page. Please allow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  top shall be my successor." The first monk, who was young, energetic ... . Then, turning to the crowd, he announced quietly: "I have found my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  -MIT environment (maybe this is my first ever experience with meeting alums outside ... courses you can explore =p) So yuppp. That's my month, more or less, in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  rather quickly) in the beginning, I decided that it was to my advantage to ... , my biggest rationale for not declaring sophomore standing during the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... immigrant-family sagas." and my favorite paragraph of the review: "Díaz has

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  My approximate CPW schedule Thursday liveblog 8:55am: I arrive on campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... . I'll have my first bike in the Tour de France this year." Read more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus ... better idea of what I want from MIT than (dare I say) a whole lot of my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L ... learning process. One of my good friends is a professor and administrator at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  had now somehow come out of my computer and invaded the real, physical ... recommendations, too, although that's not really in the official job description. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... thought I was bright and I would be able to learn, so that's how I got my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  've eaten house dinners at four different FSILGs (see my entry where I ate at ... the kitchen and enjoys the fruits of communal labor. My point is that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to ... so unbelievably scary that my camera would break if it focused on him

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my ... of magic beads bearing the inscription "REACTORS ARE MY FRIEND * I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed ... , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012