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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half ... about the Paris subway system, do a little research, and come up with some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... if you can, silly! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was ... totally crazy. A year later I e-mailed her with a peer-reviewed paper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  I've gotten a few questions lately about my activities -- why I do ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... . If you're emailing your EC, you may want a subject line that refers to ... you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  a bit vague, let me be perfectly clear: do not break the November Rule ... world. This is unsurprising for a field (again, stereotypically) devoted ... respective worlds, and this requires accepting a (perhaps incomplete) knowledge

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... from Japonaise Bakery; it was a squat, proud building with a large yard and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from [annotation note="a ... assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  them after I'd come home from class, or after a meeting, when I'd come back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  I live with three other people. We have a relatively small kitchen, but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even ... (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a college application and you're waiting for a decision), I recommend you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... transcripts, photos from the Creative Photography Lab, a "write a poem with GPT-3" booth with a nice mechanical keyboard… [carousel image1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... at a company that provides excellent lunch, giving me recipe ... understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass ... ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT ... a formal event called Ring Delivery. I've always viewed Ring Delivery

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021