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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection ... Driver looked at his watch, and his grimace brought on another wave of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... drudgery of psets, 9am lectures, and constant midterms. I've made new friends ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  -ed a cappella groups, has recently received the honor of appearing on the BEST OF COLLEGE A CAPPELLA 2006 compilation CD. Our new album, Left on ... 10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live ... within the same dorm!" Omar, you have a good point, but you are ... mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  promise): It’s a lake, it’s frozen. I am standing on it while taking this picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... 't even fully erased! One of the nice and amazing things about Diamond ... from a red-eye flight from New Zealand via San Francisco; the prize was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a large stain on my pants, and a burnt-and-undercooked slice of tomato sauce ... it. That's why it's mathematically a good idea to fold large slices of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and ... this small pocket of time on earth, that we move through each minute in ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  't envious of them... on June 2nd, I had my first [annotation note="some hours ... job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I ... . it obviously didn't happen because of COVID, but since I'd been looking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  this way >:)"]THEN.[/annotation] One of my roommates looked out the ... now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• 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 things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  is also the co-sponsor of the largest career fair on MIT's campus ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... knitted for me by Ruth '07? So, there's this report for 10.28 on the effect of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and ... Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  this clock is sort of... um... interesting. You move on. You encounter ... this term, wrote an opera based on The Great Gatsby that was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  for the Milky Way, and use that information to map out some of its ... here: Doing this lab forces you to be up on the roof all hours of the ... piling up like crazy over here. But so is work on my 8.06 term paper and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ... about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005