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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on ... getting that out of the way now - when I first discovered facebook, I lost ... myself) Research podcasting - one of many new initiatives we hope to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  related to technology, who all descend on Las Vegas the first week of every ... fun. I redesigned my website. But there are different kinds of work and ... felt in control and on top of the world. It felt like that weird kick you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  backpack brands and on my way out from hayden i saw two people in front of me ... they had a good nap. i send a couple emails and take care of some other ... 's going on. it's a good pace for me, and my notes for this recitation are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  smelly for a couple of reasons: A) I didn't know I needed a seminar on ... the seminar was at a restaurant where we dined on MIT's bill. A good ... one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  'm experiencing so many different aspects of life and then working on assimilating ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar journey and have all gone through their share of new experiences and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  think of it, this is totally creepy in a Brave New World kind of way ... Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  . She set a large basket of potpourri on a shelf and repositioned the ... top of it. She wore a thick gunny skirt that left strings on the blanket ... harsh grating of ceramic on metal. Infection and decay snarled through the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  Soooo someone asked on Sam's blog: Are you and Mitra dating? I wish ... close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... each other for a couple of months, but already we were well on our way to ... start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  when I got to MIT, I would proceed to get C’s on pretty much all of the ... socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way ... . Another moral of the story: don't wear loose slippers on the stairs. A few ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW ... harmony of brain-dead chimpanzees banging on drums. My saving grace existed ... series of increasingly worse events on a family. My cousin read it over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... part of the bar on top. It was challenging to use the bandsaw to cut an ... stages, removing a little bit of wood each time, working my way into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  's nothing wrong with New House - plenty of great people live there. It just ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  our way to three separate landmarks within the space of two hours. The first of these landmarks, the Mercedes tower, even had an exhibit on the ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of a good way to spend $700."  Our top ideas are super secret, of ... abstract representation of the humps on a camel.  Which reminds me, our team ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  classwork and clubs. As of now, the most concrete way I plan on doing this is ... wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of ... on the way back. I loved camping. We arrived not long before sunset ... club is just starting out this year, but I knew some of the new members

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... span of two or so days. Needless to say, it was stressful. New problems ... not do so great on the math diagnostic for a variety of reasons. I got a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people ... example of a good looking spreadsheet that my mentor sent to a client ... features on our development version of the client’s interface. I check over

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018