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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... did really, really horribly. For some reason, I doubt that is the case

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  Well hey there, blogosphere. Newbie #4 here. To the admissions officers here, I'm known as the girl who draws things during class and has a ... (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass Rat. The second, an MIT e-mail address. There's just something about ... the *gasp* login screen. Simply type in your username and password (both

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ... . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... 've realized that I really like having the skills to come up with an idea and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ... falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in ... -grader, but it's true, so there you go. Rain, on the other hand, just gets

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  now typing this--the computers, the oven, the HPLC pumps..." That was ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The conference brings together guidance counselors from schools across the world ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... the most important things in the world. Your parents' friends have used

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Ambreen wrote: "What is the rationale behind question 'what ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... with: "on the same note, should we have October scores rushed to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... whirlwind vacation trip with Raymond through the non-Spanish European cities of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... pain on the other hand: advertising works. recruiting works. activism works. these fields are built around the premise that you can change the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the ... to try to find out what's wrong with me.  I also went to the MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... a story that let them know they were not alone. So that’s the story we ... transferred. But the transition was not very smooth. This time we were not just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go through all the food I have stocked up, talk about where I do my grocery shopping, and try to defend my hoarder tendencies. You'll have to be the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their role as The Student Organizations, Leadership and Engagement Office ... 've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022