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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... outside of an intimidatingly professional LLP office. Sometimes I wonder ... transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my ... changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... of my entire MIT life. For one, I had a guaranteed social life. For two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... . The essence of her response was: it's fine, do what you need to do, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks ... about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school uses a ... students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air ... make use of the ones we had been taught in order to complete our missions

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... bought a pair of roller blades. I forgot how much I really enjoy skating

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old ... school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007