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• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end ... run a marathon. Personal goal. 6. I have oatmeal for breakfast almost ... guacamole before this year. 9. My childhood goal was to be quarterback for the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  , until one of the people started waving at me - it was Cody! I hustled over ... , accompanied by Liz '11 (at MIT, we always put our class year by our name, even ... Building (as with most buildings at MIT) is prohibited. But the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  computers for a while (and listening to Blast! at a volume that probably have ... wear in public, right? After staring directly at her for a good five ... Works, Dreamweaver, Windows Video Encoder) and playing with the webcam I won for 6

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  system at MyMIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown ... : The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 -- Way West ... system, one at a time, by the great records office team. Thanks Diane, Noah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... Visiting Research Fellow at the time), a group bombed the CIS. Since that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... something for everyone that they failed to convey what made their institution ... admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Jones said the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  program readily available at my high school. I didn't have any AMC scores to ... microbiology as you are - but it's also good to show initiative and look for ways around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  situationship I was in at the time and my mom was so mad at me for using my last ... but I was locked into a subscription for at least the rest of the year ... was targeted at me. Then, Petey had to message me directly to comfort me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  --it's over multiple weekends"]CP*,[/annotation] the virtual replacement for ... organized and hosted events, coded things for the massive Discord server ... kind of memed with everyone for another hour or so. I feel like I

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

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  studying the field in college. At a recent admitted student event (*shout out ... for Global Health Practice,” (HST.939) we had a lecture by the world ... science/engineering award available, and is famous for his use of polymers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  please thank all the people at the admissions office for sacrificing their ... been reported. Is this an issue for concern?" No, don't worry at this ... ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... was worth me being stuck immobile for 2 weeks, but i digress ... who studies law at Cambridge!"]Nicole [/annotation]visited me from

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  pulsar. And for MILLENNIA after I'm gone, he'll still be spinning at > ... In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 's coming at us from space, or b) out in space, that aren't what we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now ... ="alignright" width="300"] The view from my window at dusk. I like knowing all those ... city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  kept this instinct of natural fear and uncertainty for months even at MIT ... fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... , waiting for something but not really knowing what. After a bit I thud back

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken and crumble in ways that were not previously noticeable. for instance ... , creating an irregularity in my heartbeat. this was pretty scary at first, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  Shuli Approved TM Playlist for this blog post: Taylor Swift's Lover ... semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... although last year I was happy here at MIT, even called it home out loud, it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness ... from PE class, for the blogs. Below are 29 photographs, with captions ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... up my whole life plan and going for a Ph. D. literature, like the woman ... needs to be something substantial. Not "look, we got Killer Mike at MIT. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  happened that eclipsed both stories. At this point, a post with all three ... . - Tuesday, February 11 Yesterday, I woke up at 8, poured myself a bowl of Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013