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• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... !” - Langston Hughes. Still Here After a while, I came to realize two things about

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  get it all too well. Then I went to a selective public magnet high ... wanted to- but I play field hockey and I'm going to get a job and I ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday. Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all ... excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... , faithful readers. Actually, I think the task is to "have a letter to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  . Basically, I want to go home. And I never plan on going to a hospital ever ... of doctors and nurses and I am afraid to talk to them. But there's a ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea ... Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Freaks and Geeks, and listen to a really funny speech by its creator ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a ... arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6,210 applicants ... can be a difficult decision to receive. Take a deep breath, shake it off

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  . Regardless of where you stand, you should read through it to get a sense. I ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... presidential debate bingos and register to vote parties. Well, I've been getting

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  finals week to working a 7am-4pm engineering internship, spending hours ... person.  I really enjoy having a nice large desk to show off my cat ... bought a cactus from home depot to keep me company, but it's not the same

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have to find Adam and drag him back to his computer -- he got a two-day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers ... archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number ... reflect on the transition back to MIT from a place where I have lived and ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in ... with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  released next week. The Midyear Report is to be filled out by all MIT ... (except January scores, which will take a few more weeks to arrive), and, if ... teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need another copy of the evaluation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  , and then have a discussion about that applicant. Things are by consensus ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... 'll take a little breather from the tough work of selection to eat some soup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  a bike (and a lock that could pass for a tank), get out often, it's 5 ... windows ;), find a scenic route to class. Create things, collect things ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007