Search

Search Results

• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... 'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... 'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  . Even if you know you only have 90 minutes or less to make a great ... , lots of chemical engineering, and oh, a fraternity. I tried to stifle a ... describing a solution to a chemical engineering problem that involved dozens of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  make sure everything works for you. Strange things happen to people who ... I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  to make me into a hot emotional mess. My emotional threshold was so low ... spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were ... tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... there to help! Until then, try not to worry too much. If you want a ... all could use a little support from time to time.

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... – it was hesitant to make “an exception to its long

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  it's just any old day and someone's making cookies, it's a tradition to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... , which is fine, because there are many ways to skin a rabbit (and besides ... to show you the thought-provoking making of the machine that makes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream ... to run to a class and then an advising appointment. and then i have to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... to drive back home only to head into Boston again a few hours later for a play at the Cutler Majestic Theater. The original plan was for me to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... absolutely painful to write.  Okay, let’s backtrack a bit. We aren’t writing ... wanted to write this as a message to our present selves, our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it's a promise to all of you - I want to make sure my senior year doesn ... presentations. I have my first presentation this week, and I have to talk about a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or ... one has the free time to write a Cornell spamming script.") The Cornell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  verge of making a purchase that will someday cause your roommate to leave ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  to the mix, whenever I take a study break to call my mom and complain ... wore a t-shirt nonetheless, it's only because I have a jacket to wear ... awesome, has a scheduled UROP ice cream trip this Friday, thanks to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007