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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... share. 9:15AM The good news: we worked late last night and made a big dent ... schedule to mail today. The bad news: I woke up to a blizzard this morning

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him. Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  Let's start off with a little riddle. What is white, at least 2500 ... [] and a little art? If the hints aren't helping, I guess I can give you ... was a little snippet about an event at the Enormous Room, a hip

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of ... . Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for ... Thursdays. EUREKA! Surprisingly, I'd made a discovery. MIT actually has both

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  Hampshire with Joe and Joe's Dad. A picture is worth exactly one thousand ... : Nuclear Engineering. Aha! Pictures! Joe and Joe's Dad cross a ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of ... . At the Admissions holiday luncheon, we had a traditional New England "Yankee swap," a funky gift swap (described here) that sounds more like a 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a student at MIT.) A couple weeks before the end of term, we abandoned an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about.  Why?  Because I've let life slow down a bit since graduating.  On campus ... a while.  I'm the Lego guy. Sometimes I just grab people in the air

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... starts getting cold you will probably see a noticeable change in my ... a drowning snowman in the moat?” And we laugh, agree that it would

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I haven't blogged since JULY. I know, I'm a ... blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... a system where majors have names, like "history," "psychology

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... a melody played by the elementary schoolers on [annotation note="a ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... , I find it really impressive when people can advance a narrative while ... a story and I think it is really cool [annotation note="in today

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023