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• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  full week. There seemed to be events going on 24 hours a day! While this ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston…or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... had a stress-free beginning to summer. :) Picture-time~ My

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  here we are, me crufting on the blogs, you not knowing who I am. I never officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof ... to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find ... have the patience to think on it again. I am going through a breakup ... be stupid and alone and I need to fuck up and I need to live on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... modern feminist movements is something I cannot comment on nor relate to ... ’). Like a lot of people, I act like I love to embrace change and go on crazy

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... tomorrow. I am finally going to get to learn about satellite communications ... Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  , and our friend Mark, who used to live in our suite and now just lives on ... on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a ... worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my ... recording session. i'm working to get the podcast transcribed, and also get a ... [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  being on your own could be hard, but I didn’t realize that if you're not ... it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... many people came to watch, how many played, and if your team won. Sunday ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational opportunities. It is always interesting to read your stories, to learn more about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships. Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on ... , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and running lemonade stands. I'll get a real job someday.) Moments of pain are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... on the bus, and then I called Mitra to settle things from an economic ... some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty ... bus to Rochester, NY for the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you’re ... ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018