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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome ... clearer to me, as it now stands to separate me from my peers. Having

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  have enough Course 9 classes. But this class is going to be so cool. And ... your classes so far? I got to see lots and lots of you during Orientation. :) ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  occupied with the crutches to hold an umbrella. So, by the time I hobbled ... lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  I met during CPW. I was going to try to have a kind of "hands-off" CPW ... like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  have the bank account to only buy good chocolate," Hawkins says. But not ... have to temper, or heat and cool, chocolate, to attain the desired ... Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  'd have to defend to others until I met Alex and Ace in 2020 and she dropped ... our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like ... circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  -related classes and research experiences. Just to whet your appetite, MIT has some ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions blogger. I've been following Matt's blog for several months now, and if you're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... just ask that you try to have a little patience.   ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering ... ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... don’t run into any issues on Saturday. If you need to reset your ... .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your [annotation note="That’s the same place that you’ve been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  newspaper racks have recommendations on which newspapers to pick up: Wait a ... I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round ... ! It’s been over a month since I arrived @ MIT and naturally, I have processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all ... different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT Spring Concert.  Every April, students bring a major musical act to campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  lay out all the trinkets on our dorm room floor. But we did not have time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... the next bus stop. “There’s our bus.” “You’re kidding me.” “Nope.” It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012