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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I’ve been bogged down with final exams. I had an Organic Chemistry II exam on ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... . ------------------------------------- Edwin wrote, "I had applied last year to MIT but without the subject tests.I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  , commencement is over, and I'm officially an MIT graduate. That's still a little weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so ... -- you have a lot more patience than I do! (I was threatening not to go to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  . It actually looks beautiful, and I might have to check out Vaduz or something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany). But this entry is about the Boston Celtics. I'm Tau Beta Pi social

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  Center, at Meet the Bloggers. I hope you guys liked the root beer. My twelve hours at Registration desk were rewarding as well, even if I was ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the Pilgrims (and some good post-holiday shopping, too!). Adam and I took our ... Wednesday afternoon, after I finished up two more grad school apps (eek!) and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  Annie asked "I was wondering if you could tell me which floors have ... concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they ... group and not experience diversity!" I have to say, if you only have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... giving away free Vitamin Water (I've recently become a big fan of Vitamin

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... classmates had learned and done. I’m still intimidated sometimes, now, but I’m also realizing something else -- two something elses, which I think maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a ... First Day. (credit to L.S. '18) I will never get tired of the wonderful ... grateful to be here every day, and I've loved it ever since I first hugged

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here. This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and ... movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I ... front porch and padded down the sidewalk – so, appropriately, I squealed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  . But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... through writing alone. To all seniors: wow. I empathize with you a ton. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  This blog post is an ode to whiteboards, which I love very, very dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... …”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... . This might be a little unclear, but don't worry – I explain it better later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... sides I avoided lest I get salmonella poisoning, or cancer, or, worse ... sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if you've seen one milling machine you've seen them all, so I trust that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  process. I could go through it step by step with you, but Ben's already ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many of you approached your essays and your overall style and flow. Dare I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005