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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  castaway, an island lost at sea... Over this music, you see the castaway look

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ', no drama, just a sea of Black and Brown folks chillin' and eating top

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  across the Caspian Sea and Turkmen desert, some over the Kazakh steppe and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Fisherman's Wharf sea lions.) Doesn't 22 sound awfully dignified? 2. Aditya

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  sea in Antarctic winter after living without food for 120 days. I set my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . Look out upon this sea of tables: Every one of them has something free

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story. Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics competition and HawkCam. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode. Check it out: You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  excited nonetheless. I'll post pictures and stories later tonight.

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress NPR Morning Edition story: College Admissions: What Not to Do (with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  decisions. The story makes all the choices, and you get to just sit back and ... living in other people’s stories that I don’t have time to live my own. But sometimes I don’t entirely feel like living my own story. I’ve occasionally

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  these stories were sad and hard to hear, but I also cried because of how ... with gun violence in high school), yet when I told this story at my ... any individual story that affects me at this point. Rather, it’s the

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  year that EA acceptees were sent cardboard tubes, I thought my story ... .) Since I just tried to rewrite this story and did so poorly, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  If you are at all following the news, you’ll know that the US Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan debate. Just like every political debate,…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  their story was particularly relevant because this is the time when the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this ... that your time and your story have been wasted if you do not receive an ... how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  favorite bands, AJR, “A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories.” And ... the Aeroplane Over the Sea—Neutral Milk Hotel Facts sourced from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024