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• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  , and hope to visit again soon. Even though I'm home now, I head right back to Tampa on Thursday to attend and present at the national ... . Clicking on this will allow you to register to come to campus and stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at ... structure and functioning of organisms, tissues, and cells. Chemistry and functions of constituents of cells and tissues and the chemical and physical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... will be running around organizing, ferrying, making Home Depot runs, and ... the world record, blowing a measly 41 people out of the water. Day and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and ... , standards in math and science, student misconceptions, methods of instruction ... assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the ... ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  ) promising. You push open the door and smile as you hear the familiar jingle of a little golden bell. And then you see the dessert case; instead of ... with pastries—cookies, cakes, tarts, crème brûlée. Any sort of savory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... . And I love the creative process of writing, which has been part of my ... homes born in Illinois, moved to Georgia, Texas, Maryland and finally back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem out loud, and I had zero performing skills, but I entered on a whim ... seven and the kids at school pull up the outer corners of their eyes, call ... home. Be proud of the tenacity it took to survive the winters of food

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  going to be on Sunday nights, and one of the TAs wrote this apologetic e ... -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  and music lovers. You can probably find a band of any genre, and a ... big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... Squirrel Girl and Adventure Time comics, and he signed a copy of his book for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... , poetry is such a dense, compact form of language. It packs pages and pages

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  of his telephone numbers and even his home address. Haha, I know ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... , Donald Trump and the other candidates on the show stressed Randal's amazing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  )[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least ... for Land of Trees and Darkness, or Land of Time and Destiny, or Land of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  them on any other website), and some comfy gloves and am now all set for ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... different functions and settings do, and then also read a bunch of photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... that time when I was introduced to Dante Alighieri and his law of ... Nuova (The New Life).[/annotation] And in one of his hands it seemed that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... troubling affliction, particularly on long international plane trips and also ... York, on our first day of driving. The day that our air conditioner also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  comes to curiosity and the receptiveness of kids to new ideas and the ... was blue, and then pressed further with a neverending string of whys and ... highly.) Maybe it takes root easiest in youth, just like a language of any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  on it. And of course the air conditioning is on while you're sleeping ... . "NO GELS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE BROUGHT ON ANY AIRCRAFT." It is impossible ... the takeoff time? You just turned 18, so you don't get any of the fun

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006