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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date, the nurse/doctor/receptionist says WOW!!! YOU'RE A HALLOWEEN BABY?? SO ... notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... written and well-thought out, and they tie together all the different ...  Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... ), one of the FPOPs (Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs) offered to incoming ... let me design the tank tops. :) All the DEALers go through serious

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... the tragedy that happened in Boston this Monday, knowing full well that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and figured that that's what the whole building was. The point is: I thought ... leave the room when our teacher told us to etherize the rest. In 10th

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and ... instructor in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  the warship, and it was published online! Please look: http://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters this morning laughed about. They joked and said it would have at the top

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course, it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most ... detail was the MIT Press Loading Dock Sale. And I lied - I KNEW it was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made. Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some ... on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day ... on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right classroom had a preliminary spelling test. The first biochemistry recitation

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... , or where the breakdown is occurring, but if this glitch is affecting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness ... repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I ... together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011