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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  's second semester) it came through! I promise I'll write about CPW soon, but I'm so exhausted I've already fallen asleep twice during the course of writing this entry (and all I wrote about was something about a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so surprised - I had not expected it at all! Enjoy your victory, but remember

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far away ... show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the bus back. 2. I am back at the student center, conveniently without my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember having those same concerns when I got into MIT. (I didn't feel them when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start, and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was about 15 when I read "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think," a step

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of free family minutes. Today, I tried calling my mom, but there was no answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging, and I completely missed the presidential debate. D'oh! Tomorrow night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the sixth floor. 10:15 AM [annotation note="against my better judgement, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with, I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it's Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday night so shut up.) Right now it is Wednesday night I'm starting/finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem set when I remembered I haven't updated

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Harrisburg Update: Yesterday, I biked 20 miles with Ben, see? I ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that old! I only graduated 4 years ago, or 1 MIT generation ago. My yapping

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately, I've been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not sure but I found this really interesting Wikipedia article about weird

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are classes. they're pretty much the only things i've been putting on my ... interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019