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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something that I found inherently boring and not only make hourly lectures of it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  keep blogs are the most active bloggers and best make the transition to ... pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions ... . It's not a perfect metaphor. All MIT undergraduates are encouraged to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and ... . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during ... that I want each of them to give when they do an interview. I just don

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... have no problem with this concept where everyone refers to classes by ... , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical-component jewelry-making, seesaw- and small earth-mover-building, truffle

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... objects and the ones that make it into our eyes are the ones that comprise ... 'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  and loose, so I needed to hand-sew it tight. My laptop makes a cameo ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  probably the reason why I go to therapy. I try my hardest to make amends, that's all I can really do. I make chitchat, I try my hardest to be funny ... back as my half blind Lolo would speed his way back to our house on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  overall (MIT is actively working to make this better already, so it’s a ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  being miserable. It's okay to have a first choice, but make sure you like a few other choices too. Make sure to take rush seriously. It ... " field of the comments won't make it visible to everyone else), I can hash

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  swim to make it my own. The mental preparation beforehand really helped ... Europe (which I WILL DEFINITELY blog about later!), I have to go straight to exam revision (yes, over here people say revision, not review

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at ... THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday ... place over our student holiday, from Saturday, October 12th to Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  and drinks that you could smell from a mile away. Beast tried to make ... semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... called the "Bring the Feast" FAC. I was unable to attend the event

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  keep searching for his sister and talk to Liyue’s god, who goes by ... making Regional quests, sometimes featuring characters or new areas to ... . It’s an easy mistake to make but APhi is another sorority! I never

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... will be forced to make a really lame one, and then make up another person ... exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

   now that I finally have time to put my ideas to the page. I am still so, so ... we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021