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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  bargaining didn't get me very far, and it became pretty clear I'd have to make ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  play as you're getting ready to head back to the 'Tute, because, well ... to after your little brother has insisted on listening to Owl City and ... still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  . You don't get something for nothing. In addition to rerouting your life, making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately ... decisions about what you're going to do after you leave. You haven't been

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... clear your cache, or try a different internet connection. We are happy to ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp ... you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... to be waiting for your grades for a week or so.) I've fulfilled all my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... expand to fill the night sky’s infinity your river of hair tickles the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  your commitments. It seems weird to think that, for some students here ... , since you tend to spend most of your time knocking down GIRs prior to ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. This will ... if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in ... addicted to Facebook, you or Jess Kim? Prove your theory in 100 words or less

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... can go ahead and read your application. Get it? Got it? Good ... like. If the project that you want to discuss relates to your major

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... study all the time. Maybe your friends are all going to school X and want you to go there, too. Or maybe, you just don’t think you’re smart enough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... if you're ready to accept it as one (cheesy, yes, but also true ... books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off ... open yourself to opportunities. Important tips for bluffing your way ... overwhelming; it can be even worse if you’re a sophomore who actually needs to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to see your ID. "Uh...." "You need to be over 18 to buy Tylenol." "So ... Square) So which way to Harvard? MIT student: You're at MIT, bro. Kayla '12's FB status: orgo, i'm ready to kick your ass.

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  very beginning, since as time goes on and you get to know your brothers ... 't mean you're "paying for friends," nor does not getting a bid during Rush ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008