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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done ... part of the tradition however was starting a puzzle on New Year's Eve and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... disappointed, are remaining upbeat, continuing to work on other applications, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  treated disorders to establish a system of continuing care while on campus ... on campus and beginning as a staff member; many of us were deeply ... , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  2006! :-) B. P.S. A big thanks to Timur for the Santa Banners on Matt ... all a wonderful holiday season and a safe & fun New Year's! (I ... I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV.) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... , and now I was forcing myself to chart a new course. Interestingly, I ... it seems like my instinct to explore a new career was a good one

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  people to apply to a program and stay there, or why none of our websites ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get ... something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to ... bridge. It leads to a small patch of land. On top of the bridge you get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  anymore. If I need to learn a new protocol, I usually ask one of the ... for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with ... install a window AC in any dorm -- and you don't have to pay for electricity

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  throughout the year which is based on a recipe I found on the got milk website ... 've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for ... starting to like looking up new healthy recipes and discovering new healthy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  and emailed a graduate student directly. On some lab websites, they ... a new semester of classes to begin. I have yet to meet the new freshmen on my floor in Maseeh, but I was thrilled to meet the new freshmen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  space to be a problem on 5th East, and I'd say we use the kitchen more ... your friends, you're missing out on a chance to bond with your classmates ... Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  .006/6.1210 (intro to algorithms) is that it didn't have a lot of hands-on projects ... -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022