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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... that he intimidated the professors on his thesis committee by showing up ... the time, donuts and coffee would be served at a 10 AM thesis defense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  I shouldn’t have ranked Maseeh first. That’s the thought that kept creeping around the back of my mind during all of [annotation note ... occurs during Orientation Week, and all the dorms hold events showcasing

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding edgy, I've spent the past month and a half feeling as though I am ... responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received over 50 applications for four spots. Over the last week and a half the ... the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice process a little mysterious at best, so I thought I'd clear up the timeline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align ... in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as possible too. Any more would have burned me out before the end, and any less

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  And then I asked him, "What's the most unexpected thing about ... old person." On Saturday the Puzzle Club ran an event where we solved puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  promises: we are building the [insert-product] that will reshape society. We are disrupting the [insert-field] landscape. Everybody agrees that our ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion; specifically what comes to mind is the Schachter-Singer theory, where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  opened the webpage which told me whether or not I was accepted. You would think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of ... about the realities of science. I've edited out expletives, in order to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  through [annotation note = "I asked her about it now and apparently the ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to the maze, they’d stick with the first route they’d found, never looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... ,79163,79162,79161" caption="Here they are, in the flesh! Or in the avatar, anyway" /] Please

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics   ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014