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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered, clearly oblivious to the day's events, continuing with his trademark

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... and could only think about the lovely things that he could afford to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  ’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s that we need to get the ... Ann Curry is my idol. This NBC reporter is somehow able to balance an ... the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  wacky place called MIT and trying to visit with as many students, faculty, and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... more sunny days, Yours, Yuliya   PS: What are your favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan ... ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... safe Ireland feels to me, now, even though I get anxious when travelling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  your time, how to study, how many pset classes it's healthy to take, etc ... seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved ... and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait ... Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... , but either way this show is so amazingly well done. Getting to the end ... planet after using escape pods to get off of their damaged freighter ship

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  If you don't go to MIT, when you think about "hacking," you probably ... caffeinated soda and delivery pizza. If you do go to MIT, resourceful rooftop applications might come to mind. And either way, it wouldn't be hard to assume

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las ... Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to Microsoft, but has since moved to Las Vegas, where he became a professional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006