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• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  -and-variations. He then had to take three of the ten compositions we submitted on ... of my friends in the Chamber Music Society was actually coached on a ... good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub ... down her back. Beaming, she asked me to sit on the far side of the room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba ... currently broken) I slapped my palms on either side of my mat and began ... on my back, knees lifted, doing a long set of crunches, the instructor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  This entry chronicles interesting things I did on the middle three days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... children. The sheets of braille were already printed on transparent stickers

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... )." -"Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services", Science, November

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ="1000"] proof of life (credits: Arun W. '23; Eric Z., Harvard '23)[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... education should be] founded on a thorough knowledge of scientific laws and ... wealthy alum's child drowned on the Titanic? the creation of the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. For those of you who ... This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. For those of you who ... This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown ... So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  amounts of virtual ink on every MIT-related topic under the sun. You may not ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...uestions.shtml The most wonderful time of the year (Mollie): IAP. Also some stuff on ... about that on the packet i received." And Andie wrote, "where's the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... like that of last week, where at 11 AM on Friday, I was working on my 5 ... Thursday night paying attention to #7 on Ben's list of 50 things and playing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  roommate or a room on another floor; of course, you might also decide to move ... . (Just For Fun: Click on this link and scroll down to the picture of Senior ... unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A ... of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one ... you are interested in seeing more of John Kostick's handiwork, please

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019