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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code ... . Awesome.] As a freshmen, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining ... you to half-price on anything bought at any dining hall. Translation: a ... a dining hall when I can go to my floor kitchen - or, better yet, when

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... 'll take a little breather from the tough work of selection to eat some soup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across ... , Melis. (But you do have beautiful eyes :P ) I went on a warm-up jog and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... inside the door, the ceiling began leaking on me. Needless to say, I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  , working on a project that [annotation note="this was a relief to me; I am ... wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was ... leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a ... section of Technology Review. I'll print some of it below, with a link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... the last one: "Who should I ask to write letters on my behalf? And the ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk ... promise to drop off the pants at Baker when I get a chance. Fast forward to ... and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  we head for Briggs Field where everything was coming to a head. On our ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ...  but a small bit of me is very very sad right now and i'm trying to make ... will keep on feeling sad for a while, but eventually she'll become happy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  how old you are, this can equate to a whole lot of sneezes you have ... if you are driving. I have been late to school on approximately 1 ... . About 20% of people have obtained an injury due to a sneeze. The angle of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  pearl jam songs on repeat to learn for my boyfriend so as a result my ... long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class ... to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... Yard. We passed around an aluminum wheel identical to the ones on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and ... to class discussions on the documents and pamphlets that we ought to ... multitude of platitudes when Professor Maier calls on us to explain the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... a full-size chocolate bar. The good stuff. Then we’d drive to the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008