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• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... , sadly, it had made like a ghost and vanished by early afternoon

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... . Iowa became a distant memory as I talked to my old friends less and less ... 'd have more time to talk. And then I graduated, and I went back to a house

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  .” He went on to explain that I was one of less than a dozen children ever ... - in the doctor’s who had labored straight through Christmas to reach a ... exist, to be creative and forge my way, helping to create a better future

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... , "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  like this and you’ll see: Not ‘some way to sleep with her’ - but a way to stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop trying. Not ‘some way to save my child’ - but a way to lose your fear.” i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  kid level for a long while, though.)Anything else? I was once quoted by ... : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... ), Annie HallFavorite food: A corned beef sandwich from Katz's deli, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  a part of the body that is not used to it. same thing if the ground is ... your feet is in pain it is easy to move heavy stuff in a bad way to make ... . how the front of your foot should push off the ground a little. how to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... -frosh too. Now I am a freshmen, soon to be rising sophomore. Technically ... told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  spontaneity turns out to be a disappointment. An artist I like retires to be a ... the world to have a productive but unremarkable career. So it goes ... -nighters in a row. I imagined what it would be like to live through stereotyped

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  answer session. A New Jersey MIT freshman had come from her spring break to ... to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  stuck in a loop, constantly going back and trying to find a better ... on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... lot of material relevant to my UROP as well, as a plus. 7

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Institute by working here. We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of new ... About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by ... . What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  definitely worth a visit. It was established to connect the community in ... rendered by an artist, but are instead a row of large colorful backlit images ... Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3 ... chance to take a seminar during the last week of IAP in which we discussed

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... Tina Fey and have wanted to see Date Night for such a long time. Tonight

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010