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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  and also raising money for the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund.  The Fund ... dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some ... side 2015 calendar today at wotes.mit.edu!!! And pick up/pay for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... we hope you'll like enough of what you see to want to apply for admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ; the latter is to raise money for leukemia research, and was started by ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... Snapple, cheered for the runners, and not-so-jokingly announced I would run

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot ... Playfair, we all headed over to the Student Center for a party with more free

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  'll just apologize for being derelict in my blogging over the past few months ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii ... was almost auditioning for The Amazing Race 12. Oh man, I just checked

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  letters the player has guessed correctly/incorrectly so far. For each game ... I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for ... list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight ...  tree. Giant Googly Eyes for your fridge. Just have something that lets people

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  Cash (money for dinner, laundry, textbooks, etc.): http ... So philosophical entries with advice on the right strategies for ... thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who ... , and exercising?). MIT isn't all fun and games. There are times when you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  money. Thanks for the help, and thanks again for the trip today! -Michael ... comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted ... , etc.) and a life sized version of the Monopoly car game piece. After

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  - Play DDR in the game room - with Nicole '10 and Yoni '10 last night after ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  sometime the only) option for students looking to be challenged and ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions process, we are looking for students who enjoy a challenge and love learning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It's an excellent age for video games - Mortal Kombat was released 18 years ... applicants - meaning, all y'all! It's also an excellent number of years for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of ... may take on a full-time research project. But for a lot of students ... far of 2016. StartMIT is basically a playground for aspiring

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are ... notable thing that happened to me this weekend was standing outside for 2 and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  Update (11/19/06; 2:08 PM) The cultural reference for that symbol goes back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  opened up, where you can sign up for a slot and you have the gym to ... for 6.009 and realized this on Sunday morning. From my calculations, there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and ... urchins for the first time and adolescence. It’s a short, satisfying five

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015