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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red ... , to the striking ruins of the ancient Roman Empire; from some of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you ... care of my puppy, Willie). I also was able to eat some of my very

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM ... stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal. It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... subjected to pressure "by professors who are simply older versions of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  of current residents, friends of hall, and kids of alumni gathered to ... plywood that will eventually be used to cover up our cursed mural. And of ... alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... each of the students whom I was supposed to call. We used the sheets to ... not, and (if necessary) when would be a good time to call back. Most of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... . Basically, the goal of the class is to design a robot to accomplish certain ... compete against the rest of your class of 150 people with goals to have

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  advantage of our free rides on the T, we went to JP Licks. Susan Hockfield welcomed the Class of '09 to MIT at Convocation, so I guess you can say she ... to see. Friday night, the entire class of '09 and the Orientation

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  lots of board games with all of my friends— I don't want the summer to ... from all my overcommitment. I want to shill during midway to the point of ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  Kesem table (#125) to meet my fellow counselors. For a list of groups ... service? Want to get involved with these activities at MIT? Then, come to ... Johnson Athletics Center. You will have the opportunity to see almost every

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks ... to be looking at a plate of pickles to think about a plate of pickles ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My ... - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a ... something.) To celebrate Ben's continued ownership of all ten digits on his ... Epikasuccess thanks to the work of head chef Spang '10 and a miniature army of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  challenging, with nothing to answer to beyond my own standards and those of my ... 're gonna need a lot of help to get to where you ought to be." It was more ... try not to fall off the face of the earth; I got a Netflix instant

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... ’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects* you to have ... time away from HS to really think about what you want out of life. Are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... to so many new perspectives and ways of life that I just never even ... . "Kindred spirits," so to speak, as Anne of Green Gables might say--the best

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  baby grand and took advantage of the opportunity to have our photos taken ... , I headed over to Killian Hall (Building 14, just outside of Hayden ... comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008