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• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... omnipresent canadian and white geese. (I’ve even seen these guys picketing on ... country and track team is to Jamaica Pond (part of the Boston’s Emerald

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  . On Valentine's Day, I got a message saying that I'd been accepted, and ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday ... betting against it really.....kind of a lose lose...) so I sat down and ... like some strange hybrid of Stephen Hawking and Rambo (note to self: that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  solving and interpersonal communication. Over the course of the program ... faculty & staff cluster leaders and student veterans of the program ... Grimson and one of my bffls, Kuljot '13. Together, they helped all of us

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects ... mailing lists lack clever names and all of them end with @mit.edu. Since ... , ladies and gents - THE MIT FRESHMAN'S GUIDE TO RECOVERING OWNERSHIP OF

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  me, we cooked a bunch of food so I wouldn't starve, and we went on an ... inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep ... past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’.  Monday  12:30 pm I get on a call with one of my pod mates and ask ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... invitation on my iPhone and was shuffled to the Regis Theatre hastily, since

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... during this time (2) I will not be blogging about any of the work I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  - load bouncing issues and whatnot, coupled with 4000 of you doing your ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the College Board Conference, with limited internet access, and the MyMIT server

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when ... told that their twins were fraternal and 12 parents of fraternal twins ... between placentas and zygosity (identical vs. fraternal). So, based on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... -noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have Science Essay class. My professor is Seth Mnookin, a science writer and co-director of MIT's Science Writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not ... wore on, passed by, and transitioned into fall-semester classes, it grew ... between classes or in the dining halls. Throw on the pressure of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  of Financial Aid, and 9 current MIT students -- can now be viewed ... 'll find the blogs of MIT Admissions Officers Ben Jones and Bryan Nance, as ... McGonigle, and second, the blog of Olin College Assistant Director of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  and on my bike, riding through the cold and wet January air. I rode across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international ... back on my bike and headed to the Navy ROTC building. During IAP, I am

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  'd just met seventeen or so of them, and she regretted she was on her way ... Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT ... , and 20th centuries. Class discussion of students' writing and of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class ... I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005