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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get ... . As it turns out, I didn’t get to give my train stickers to any of the ... , and given 5 more minutes to get over the awkwardness barrier, the groups

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  to get from the house). Oh, also, this happened a few months before ... , pretzels, snacks, and other things for the runners to grab on their way by ... 't necessarily going to be fun for the rest of the race.  It started to get hard

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  sugar and caffeine to get me through the day left me exhausted at night ... should believe that I am good enough to get the things that I want- but I ... When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... pain and chaos.  This semester, we were going to be involved with the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  to dinner (and ICE CREAM!) several times (by the way, every one in my ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  voice, stories, and dreams are going to be perceived by the committee of ... out by the mortifying ordeal of being known. Being vulnerable to a bunch ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  classy event and one of the only times that the entire '08 class gets to be ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  Lavery, posted to YouTube by Team 801: To read more about the game, you ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  half hours in Montreux before I had to get on the last train back home ... Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... friend. The Irish guy was sent down by some major newspaper to cover the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" and "The ... that the reading you're using to complete the lab is written by ... corporation. Everything builds down from the Corporation, so getting to have a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... casino. The festival celebrates Senior House culture by sporting death

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  . To get some headspace, and reflect on the semester and year. To have ... the holiday decorations, and explore a part of the city I rarely get to ... TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Office. I also love getting discounts as an MIT affiliate at the Boston ... love going to the ballet, eating famous Boston ice cream (such as ... to the details-be sure to use spell check and capitalize your name, etc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  . Shen asked about the swim test (which I really need to get around to ... watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so tired and so stressed by the time they got me on the table and ... about sending a sick note to my TA, which they normally don't do over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I ... about the uncontrollable. Here, I specifically mean flying. Due to the polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014