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• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... reaction on that day. Now, how about a proper introduction?  My name is ... flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... opportunities may be, they are also a bit scary because you are tossed into a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... 's team qualified with a decisive victory. It was less than a week later we ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I should probably blog.” IAP is a wonderful, wonderful time. While all my

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands ... , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence ... feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... not a good hair d- was that just last year? THAT WAS LAST YEAR?” And I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average ... a standard deviation below. I didn't actually score average on a test

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  you haven't noticed, I have been drafting on a 12-day posting schedule ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... during IAP (like skiing!) and special PE classes like backpacking for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an ... alone the summer. So it's not a definite, but it's something that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  've become a bit behind in answering your comments. It's been nearly two months ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that ... - I had my interview almost a month and a half ago. I sent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  class ring was unveiled during a premiere at Walker Memorial, then distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the ... what I mean?) Bezel The 2006 beaver is supposed to look a little more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... sports 4. watched Jon Stewart give a kind of bizarre and unrehearsed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... dorms (keep in mind there is also a residence hall called East Campus

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the Cambridge Half marathon last fall, I accepted. But first, I went on a run ... it’s not worth it"]THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA DON'T TRY THIS IT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... bristol. oh, but it's okay! because delta airlines gave me a 12 dollar food

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022