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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  prefrosh I know getting waitlisted. Wow. What does it mean when you start ... that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more than you've ever been challenged before? Well, you can do that for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  been one of those things where the more I put in, the more I get out ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... :59 am you will invariably be glued to your laptop, frantically refreshing

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get ... get started on here. Unlike almost everyone else here, I don't have an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  slideshows where you have to click to load the next page for a single image ... ", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A ... go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Oprah Winfrey once dated Roger Ebert. So the Isar ... , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... journeying, you go toward a dam, which prevents you from going over a waterfall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered ... -semester freshman (Classical Mechanics, you're cool and all, but I've realized lately ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of ... making two custom Discord bots. The first one can be summoned into a voice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  classes, you might be wondering, “Waly, how was your semester,” but let us not ask such provocative questions. That we can talk about… later ... semester, and I was already getting uppercut by my classes. I needed a break

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  I can love you, respect you regardless of your choice yesterday ... confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go to chem lecture today, walking across the East Campus courtyard where

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  music, good friends, and all the cake you can eat. Greg '08, Me, Jackie ... '09 My girlfriend Kristen '09 and me. Who says you can't find a girl ... ! It's not everday you get to meet a blogger My favorite A Phi lady

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... Program also have summer classes you can take for college credit. Also ... I was in 10th grade (and since that was only three years ago, you can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... Tuesday Toy Design Presentations So, let's see, where does that put me? I ... worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the ... you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed ... had the opportunity to join a research project where I would study

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  pink slippers the next time you do your laundry." Unfortunately I can ... , ‘bubbles are something you can look at all day and not do anything else ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  version of their flagship musicBottles demo. It's pretty much an art piece...you ... ). When you take out the stopper from the bottle music plays, which ... temperature controller for a laser. It's pretty fun; I'm getting a lot of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  and bananas are basically the only things you can depend on on when the ... hot frantic kitchen where the concentrated afternoon heat fringes on ... pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... -purpose parts of the brain and mind. Q. Can you tell us about an undergraduate ... one of the most fundamental questions any scientist can ask: What is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  from who only knows where. You need to call the MIT PD to get the campus ... up where they make you sit and drink lemonade and eat cookies for 15 ... smacked my chin on the floor, which drove my teeth....well, you get the idea

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  Lights is great, so I picked Forget You. The other contender was Can ... upfront A. C. Newman is about his depression, and you can hear it in ... posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023