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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  line, at which point he "knew it wasn't Ikea," the Swedish furniture ... Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1902. Adam Riess as a freshman at ... . (The answer: It couldn't.)" Riess also met his wife, Nancy, at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  it, every week with a test coupled with at least one or two p-sets has constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level. It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the morning? Going to Steam Cafe© at noon. OK – Maybe that’s not exactly the ... . Despite my honest efforts, this is still a very pathetic attempt at making a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  at all - beyond the ordinary variations. Even the DNA tests could match ... field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It ... next week, or the two kids at the math diagnostic that were overheard

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... on Thursday night at 7:30 pm Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions and Donald ... Parent Connectors and Alumni on Friday night at 5:00 pm Sponsored by the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  , because even though there are dentists at MIT Medical that are covered by ... some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that ... working as a production assistant at Pixar. That means I was mostly at my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT! Thursday, I arrived at CPW two hours later than intended. My flight through O

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there ... then what I'd lived in before. For one, travel at MIT was primarily

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  school crew program at the Detroit Boat Club (I was on the varsity crew when I was a student at MIT). I found that I enjoyed my coaching more ... followed my passion. I quit my job at GM and became a full time crew coach

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... that at MIT. If you complete the requirements for two majors at MIT, you actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  reason safety enters into this at all is that I like to wander without ... I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest blog" by Amanda Frye, MIT '06 Spending a year at Cambridge has been an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I ... I live on a campus. While I was at MIT, I found myself wondering how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... mother’s first comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... teaches undergrads at MIT. I thought it would be really cool to ask someone ... Klink. I'm a lecturer at MIT, and I'm the Chief Participation Officer for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011