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• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and it's got an umlaut. I just realized that I had a commenter a long time ... and tell me that I should have contacted him, because I only ended up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... ! Rats, foiled again! I also hope to catch up on blog questions as soon as I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an earlier blog entry: What could this possibly mean? It means I ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post, because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing/proofreading/grammar-checking/comprehensibility-checking will happen. Sorry. - Wednesday October 3. 7pm. I finished eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids like you love inventing cool new things.” Again, I had nothing. Trust me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... . Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like I did here, here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to ... ! We have very different styles, as you'll see -- I got her permission to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... with the actual work I am doing. Nervous and excited on the first day, I expected many things. What I did not expect was to be treated, so suddenly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend. Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I'd like to blog about things I've been doing around my house, it's not going

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  , at least, I hope you are - just not the worrying part). Therefore, I decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are thinking about their fall schedules right now (I mean, a lot of freshmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... Sunday, March 15: Departure This post is long because I believe there is ... one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  ) named Seven. I wonder if that makes his name 73000? Dre was also named ... arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8 ... ... and though I didn't go quite as crazy as last year, I still found time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove ... feels a lot heavier :< All this to say, I've been browsing ... drafts for a bit :')"]post-finals[/annotation]and thought I'd share my very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023