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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning while attending a community service event at my high school, I broke into ... . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in ... sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea, bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9:30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  has melted away into a newfound excitement for the future, for REX week, for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new ... picture apart. The email subject title read: “Important news for the Senior

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  Jeff Schiller. Jeff's been at MIT for a long time, and been network ... trusting place. At the time, my father was working as a sales engineer for ... panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  happen, and it happens very quickly. So I'm here at MIT, taking actual ... !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ) conference for high schoolers. -Ordered my Brass Rat! -Went to a college MUN conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... !) - directing the program for so long had made me start to use the program as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... both would be staying at MIT over the break (flights to Oregon are ... looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  -The-Right-Thing (the jury's still out on that one, for the record, or at least I think it ... I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... apply for degree programs at Oxford (I’m hoping to studying Integrated ... strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  project was due that I sucked at writing for strings, I took a closer look ... wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... corresponded. Fun for toute la famille! I think that you could play the same game

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  to med school. There wasn't any particular reason for this...I had ... sort of interdisciplinary field (neuroscience, for the record, is pretty interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  captains at all. i’m not mad about it though—i’ve never performed for a crowd ... out too much (unhealthily at that) and not keeping my room clean for ... two shows, both at 10 pm on Friday and Saturday"]Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  be my home for a few more months. Considering this, stopping at the ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  while it lasts, but I’m excited for another year here at MIT and all that ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go ... 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... again, my brother owns me... at my own job. So here are some pictures ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012