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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  ETS – the Educational Testing Service, a.k.a. producer of the SAT, GRE ... mentioned exams, but rather, a newer test called the TOEIC – Test of English for International Communication – a.k.a. English for the business

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  Dining is a hot topic here, and rightfully so 'cause a tooling MIT ... produce stand to campus Anne Wilson, Campus Dining March 27, 2009 A ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  Last year Jess wrote about a blogging scholarship that she had entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book ... . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend 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

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  show that 5-6% of MIT alums earn a J.D. Of my MIT friends who are lawyers, one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... obscure occasions of note. Created by a leading young visionary in the ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a ... , the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up ... -paints... "Are you a kindergarten teacher?" asks the sales clerk. "No," says Kelly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  backward correlates with a small increase in the number of fatal auto ... bustling with Halloween-related activities this weekend. SaveTFP, a group ... increasing health awareness at MIT,” put on a “Spooky Skate” event at our ice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer ... a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... :30-3:30 PM: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, featuring a presentation by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  So. I decided that I needed a new banner. Alright, so that's a lie. Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the original blog for us, it has a "default banner" that says "replace this ASAP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of ... at the Institute. The pomp and circumstance of an MIT graduation was a ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  was a huge mail day. The records staff is currently working through 14 ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... morning we had our weekly staff meeting, a good chance for all admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well-defined, somewhat abstract, and entirely distracting. This is a more fleshed out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... promise that my other posts are a lot better. FUBN USELESS FACT:     Did you know that there was a great molasses flood in boston

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023