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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... process by which projects come to fruition, and how very political those ... that it’s difficult for public officials to know how to act toward a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... small failures. a single bad recruitment cycle goes by, maybe because of a ... officer forgets to transfer a mailing list. i've seen some success with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... '10 to disseminate low cost water testing devices that were developed by ... before, and I've traveled to areas after they've been hit by natural

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  , then, to strip these four walls of my existence. Photographs make a poor ... -student. I anticipate that learning to be a non-student will make me a better ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... thermos) and what to leave behind (record player, books, a little cactus I ... and I wanted to make friends. It turned out to be more than I bargained

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back ... decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little ... open to make omelet, shrieking vegetables chopped into tiny pieces by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think ... , if only because i have a limited number of things to occupy my time ... march 10th, i was trying to learn 1612 by vulfpeck, which is as simple as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... many things. It's when seeing each other on campus brings a smile to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  that are designed to give you a first hand view of the college by having ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  got to make up a story and give my problems to a fictional character ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks ... time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  also really enjoy cooking with other people since usually I get to make a ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by ... poorly, which by that point wasn't really a surprise. I could go into ... "]my academics.[/annotation] Instead, I want to write a blog about... everything

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but ... went to Chameleon on a special day when walk-ins were allowed (normally

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... (or if you choose to run, 10 mph). At this time make sure your luggage

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500 ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  internet connection, it may take a few moments, or minutes, to download for ... , which is a numeric string that allows us to keep track of your scores so ... mystery. But refreshing the page seems to make it go away, and we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... , Pluto was a planet). I've also tried to include some entries to help you out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006