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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is silently whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments ... ) about the... DUN DUN DUN... COLLEGE ESSAY. Before I start, I'd like to offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... hang out some more with the 254 (Burton Conner suites are all numbered

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It's different than the school year. There are many many many reasons why it ... == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... as the second-greatest moment in television history. If memory serves me correctly, #1 was the moon landing or something ridiculous like that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... 'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  fifth grade about my future aspirations. Now, you can't argue about the first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies, but the rest has changed, uh, quite a bit since I wrote it. I'd say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  asked, "Now that the Interview Information is posted on the MyMit website with the EC contact information...what do I write/say when I email ... . Don't be shy; the ECs are used to people wanting to schedule interviews

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  the person that I was two years ago, the ways she’s changed and grown ... typed out the entries that seemed interesting to me. This IAP I trimmed that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... times. Luckily I’ve caught the culprits for this issue. With the simple method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  , inspiration strikes and fast   and it feels like the blog manifests itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024