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• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... ways than one. *** Cut to a very different dining experience. Tonight we went to a Lebanese restaurant in downtown/Penn Court. We took the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... on the show? I was contacted by casting and asked to make an audition ... 24 hours a day. Sleep schedule was up to the individual but we had to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  [/caption] Ultimately, an unnecessary item to have, but getting this filled me with a ... don’t want to be stuck fumbling with a paring knife and getting ... that involves a lot of scraping bowls to get all the tasty batter out. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... , give yourself a hand. It's the MIT experience, and you'll get to live it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get ... Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... phrases that I heard my friends toss casually around. I scraped by with a 66

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a ... lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... to my Engineering Practice Requirement, a project with leadership

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  after just a few hours and one cannot even hope to get to the bottom of ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  discovered a post by an incoming frosh who was temped on my hall and wanted to ... -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before ... playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work ... while I was at MIT. I wish I had been brave enough to make a point to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a ... auditioning, and get interviewed.  If you are selected to be on Jeopardy!, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009