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• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  of Logan airport last Friday, including Celebrated Fellow Blogger Joel B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... 't have nearly as many hugs, spontaneous bursts of song, or sunbutter ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... uneventful." My 4 pm-11 pm shift this past Sunday agrees with about 2/3 of ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011 ... house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which ... Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that you don't have to ask (not that I mind questions). All of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... with a table of contents Open strong and generate excitement by giving a preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high ... talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance at MIT. Some of these include: Meal plans 5-star restaurants

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  )Scholarship Row - a college fair with dozens of schools, including MIT, represented ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  College of Computing. So I thought I'd ask her a few questions over email ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020