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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  , suggested that I blog about this. I feel ashamed that even Matt knows more about what's going on Taiwanese TV shows than I do (jk, Matt =p). But ... ), Janet Hsieh ( graduated '01 - omg, I just discovered that she was the FUN

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly ... actually going to the ball went by really quickly, and before I knew it, it ... ' of my bedsprings? --Are you the square root of 2? Because I feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L-word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I ... SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl. Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... , I just found out that Biodiesel@MIT, a student group started by Joe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom'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

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of one second per second: 1. I met Sarah '10, became friends, asked her ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading ... typical year, that is."]doing recruitment travel,[/annotation]I am

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on my mind since school started two weeks ago. I had just finished my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... MIT gives us first semester on Pass/No Record means that I think most ... finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... were usually left with a mixed bag of news (it turns out I am incredibly ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... ” isn’t really “off.” We’re definitely still running, but the fact that I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on concrete during murkily warm, precipitation-infatuated Januaries. This I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I've been walking around ... I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you ... , and you lose perspective. (Oh, calm down. It's not all that bad. I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009