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• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6 ... -Orientation programs for admitted students? Those are run by the Academic Resource

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I ... figures figure (haha!) into the party? Well, the nametags we wore on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... engineering for that much. I got some immediate responses saying that the

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some fun before the real work kicks in? Here's some stuff going on around campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... I heard April the Californian open the shade above her bed, look out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  is included in the term "extended family," and she thinks it's great that I'm doing so many awesome things, like watching April paint the room (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to ... the fact that it was the Friday before Labor Day weekend, but we were ... *.) Perhaps the ungodly gas prices kept people at home. The only line that we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... John Thain '77). On the bus ride down, I was reading today's New York Times, where there was an interesting column about the new SAT writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  The Prudential Tower put on a special display for the New England Patriots tonight, before they face off against the Seattle Seahawks at the ... here all my life, and I know next to nothing about American football. The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... little about Seattle that I don't like. I love the weather that never really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be scrolling through the packing playlist I made on spotify last month (mostly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... : The inspiration for this loft started with a really, really old house

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech ... reality. I did that at both the Innovations Showcase and the Upload ... about the industry's future.       Washington DC: While we were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  7:48 AM The view from my window If you crane your neck, you can see the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave: I was not pleased. But the weather was beautiful and I had waited four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... . There's generally a prompt, but the professor encourages us to go outside ... then we read it aloud to receive feedback from both the professor and our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010