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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their ... you'll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While ... essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf, they will get your letter ... letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  pawo?si=sf9IqtB1SreHT98Yqh12fQ went on ~retreat~ to new hampshire ... catch up on other stuff, like [annotation note="i promised to make a blog ... to be spending all my time doing"]working on my UROP[/annotation]. i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  BOOK FOR NINE YEARS ... ZOMG Oh and if you think you're going to post a ... revoke your admission or diploma (jk) The t-shirt I was planning on ... dieselsweeties made me laugh: ... so we quickly dashed on the bus and hurried

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  , and karaoke as the night goes on. Most people dress to impress although ... week to get out 14 NEW BROTHERS (note the excitement). Anyhoo, for those ... the country might look like or how far I went to stick out on this

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was ... all aren't just names and random comments, you're people who I wanted to ... that I have on Wednesday. Final Words: To those who won't be attending

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... went to Chameleon on a special day when walk-ins were allowed (normally ... , which can be hard to do by yourself for piercings not on the earlobe

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

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you're ready to move on - Again, I hate doing the "been there-done that" talk ... history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  (technical skills and mathematical maturity), before moving on to the meat with ... week[/annotation] based on my estimate of their workloads. To estimate ... around 11 hours per week on it, while I spent closer to 13 hours because I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  mechanical engineering, he went on to work in the MIT Hobby Shop, so that he ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a ... learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new ... to be in this post!   $picy     Happy New Year! Hope your 2017 isn't as anticlimactic as my attempt to pop the screw cap off

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  forward to doing these programs since high school, i set my hopes on doing ... start our internships remotely and possibly travel to the region on June ... . also, the first week was slated to be virtual. I'd leave the States on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... high school clubs for the sake of involvement. I’ve learned to focus on ... available on campus without having to worry about getting perfect grades. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Workshop this fall, to keep on trying new forms and commit to workshop a new ... scribble a new poem in my notebook. The process took about an hour on good days, longer on slow days. After that, I’d switch gears to fiction work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  for me: If you'd like to post the link yourself on your blog, or just ... be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... .") In essence, you’re asked to squeeze your entire identity into a couple

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... abilities and started to complain vocally.) I realized pretty quickly that I ... around and snuggle close to on a warm summer night. It's a house that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  everyone on your hall, it's harder to initiate new conversations. On the flip ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... take helps me interact with more people; I pass four suites on the way to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022