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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  of being on the campus for real. I saw their pleasure as they first ... to even realize…ways that will be a part of them when their time at MIT ... they learned here and using it in such amazing ways. Each one of them has

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... . From what I hear, MIT students tend not to do as well on the exam as they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to find a way to comfort me. I don't know why I was so afraid of this ... what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  bump into you on your way to your favorite hipster coffee shop. For the ... the beginning of the semester, is beginning to bear down on me with all ... really nice language that isn't full of warts...but on the upside, me not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  qualitative aspects of civil engineering, rather than the hands-on aspects ... up with have The God of All Small Things, A Good Man is Hard to Find ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  we didn't go to the space needle. First, we went on a duck tour of ... Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety ... Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  staff from a wide variety of programs on a non-regular basis to keep ... tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... on the arts! We'll be highlighting anything and everything art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... to send us anything new other than the February Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your MyMIT account

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won ... progression - two emergency vehicles, woot! (I thought of you, Tish.) And second

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  way of getting to know them. Let simmer overnight. In the day time ... in my first round of exams (don’t panic, I got above average on the ... the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  've already compressed your life into four lines on a piece of paper and sent it ... another way. Ben wrote a post about "The Match" that got a lot of you ... . Learn how to watercolor. Test the levels of bacteria on dropped food to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  video (among many others)? OK Go has a new video for their song "End Love," and it is directed by two of my MIT classmates, Jeff Lieberman '00 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data: over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for today, and possibly all of next week (Playsentations soon? Do we have a ... too much that's been going on not to blog about it. Seriously, you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  that taking an hour out of the day to maintain a good level of physical ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... of snow built up on the ground, I felt this sort of intense kind of joy ... lot of different ways, but sometimes it's the little details, those

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through ... Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009