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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... truck was trying to find its way through security (good luck.) When it was ... . Will '15, who had been one of the New House CPW chairs, contributed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that ... MIT community. Our community is comprised of good people. People who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  parents cheered us on and wished us good luck the morning of? So much seemed ... school hallway accosted me with a new bundle of numbers. It was ... instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there ... producing good output, which means i spend a lot of time working and trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security concerns, none of us are allowed to work on my company's actual codebase, so ... a place, a culture, a way of working, but ultimately what I really

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  taking selfies with stupid signs on campus. It was the night when four of ... , tenacious MIT students we all strive to be, the four of us decided that a new ... ="Anytime anyone from Hawaii visits the mainland, a good portion of their suitcase

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... letters on the left of the keyboard, ensuring that right-handed typists ... to think at how fast Mitra would type on a Dvorak.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... blogger alums. (Apologies to the new bloggers...) Matt '00: The Years of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  you have submitted portions of your application on the EC website during ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... point of practically going upside down. After the water park, we went on ... he was too little to go on most of the rides. And my mom is afraid of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  when the MIT alum CTO of some hot new startup asks you how you know ... Macaroni, whom we had encountered earlier on the way to dinner. I give ... , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  Star Wars: Musical Edition. But, yes, Revenge of the Sith did come on ... dialogue upon the introduction of Ben Kenobi. BEN: Good morning! LUKE: What ... having one, or do you find that mornings in general are good? BEN: All of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  !) There were 36 of us on the New Mexico campus, out in Socorro (more ... bump into a couple of my fellow Lancaster-ians on MIT campus. For more information on the program, here's the official website, and here's a better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because ... everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  good school based on how everyone spoke of it, but that was, for the most ... failing miserably very fast. By 3:14 on that day, the combination of numbers ... MIT felt like a long shot in general. On the day of decisions, I woke up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  need of a good dose of classic rock on a Friday night, head over to the ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... opening. I got closer to some of my old friends and started making new ones

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  't really know what they were doing. They'd often make fun of me for being on ... someone to notice that I was adamant on skipping meals because of how I felt ... until I was out of breath and panting on the floor. Which only made me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005