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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  jones - blogger alum?!?!?!? did you really have to remind me? Can I at ... reintroduce myself and talk about life post MIT at MIT. I graduated June 8 and ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her ... before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... keeps looking over at me, as if me tapping my toes indicates that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... : "Living and learning at MIT is not a spectator sport." 9:24am: President ... choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  while I was sleeping. One night, I dreamed that one of the performances at ... from Snakes on a Plane. I'm not really sure why we were doing it at CPW ... had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8:30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on ... not fun. Don't even start with your "wah wah wah I have to get up at 5

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it ... good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  decisions online on Saturday, December 9th at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One ... , including one at Technology Review. More updates soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times ... 'll have to leave the others here at the desk"), tissues ("Yeah, that rule ... 't really matter, at all, according to the MIT chemical engineering grad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  studying and Justin looked right at me and said, 'What's Gauss's Law?'" "I totally didn't study for this exam... I've only been looking at the material for about four hours." "I KNOW! I fell asleep at 12 and didn't wake up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered ... an art exhibit at MIT (in the New York Times!). And for now, off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last ... . 8:00 AM -- I finally arrived back at the dorm. Pounced on Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  dinner at the ZBT house, home to Bryan '07, among many other awesome people ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... (small) collection of photos of doors at MIT, this from a room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... . Nor did we drinq this Milq. Rather, we waited for reservations at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... welcomed the Class of '09 to MIT at Convocation, so I guess you can say she

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... Street and got ice cream at JP Licks (where they sell cucumber ice cream ... got it at Bed Bath & Beyond. (This is actually a tradition -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... I participated in was at Stuyvesant High School. The Stuy college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  , reach out to us at 617.253.3400 or email us at ... benefit or advantage in doing so, and you should feel at ease applying
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus (Part 1) despite everything, it's still you.

  

  or you have a fun fact I didn't include, feel free to yap and gripe at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it ... undergrads walk faster here. The [annotation note="the longest hallway at MIT ... [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025