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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... don't even have a chance to meet the hundreds upon hundreds of students ... religious schools of various sorts. This isn't to say that we prefer public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During ... day of the week. Then I go back to my sorority, Theta, and make

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... 300 lbs of pumpkin 1.5 miles back across the bridge to our dorm. With

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to ... randomness of the email sent out to my sorority's spam list is just absurd ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... below the female median marriage age of 25.3. I'm not sure how to figure ... course you'll find cool people in other places too, but enough of them to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... cheese, but of Random Hall.    Eventually, the Milk began to stink ... migrated from Bonfire to Pecker, where it remained for the rest of its days

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  bit unsure of what to do from here. I feel really separated from my ... because of how busy I am. I am so grateful to the [annotation note ... but instead I've reverted to the kind of MIT student I hate -- one that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... height is so close to mine. Everyone has a sense of collective ... natural to me than the aggressiveness and volume of the U.S. Even Starbucks

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in ... instead of just an occasional thing. It got to the point that I simply could

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting ... barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... . These happen to come packed in a jar of brine solution, but they are still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  buying a ticket for the lottery. The only similarity to a game of chance is ... The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the ... laundry. 4:00pm – Allan went to take a picture of the statue in front of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... through surveys of the freshmen and the upperclassmen. We went to different ... Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... sympathetic to both. I was suddenly very conscious of the fact that I was ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... of toast and tea and ramen, and then she took me to Ikebukuro to get a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  hope to eventually transform many of these into their own blog posts: 1 ... between all of that, we ate fresh pies, took a trip to Cape May, and did a ... in general. I went from barely being able to do a mile in September of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also ... bad. You'd have to eat a lot of dollar menu burgers or ramen to beat ... plates instead of paper. Being able to reuse things will make them pay for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009