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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  delivering my second cup of black coffee to remark, "Are you a grad student? I ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown. A bunch of the ChemE's decided to grow beards as part of a male

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent ... loves to binge-watch Avatar: The Last Airbender Paolo A. '21 of Nevada ... CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... . If you're willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... succumbed to the satisfied murmurs of soup-slurping outside her door and went into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... one of the most anticipated parties of the year, a great MIT tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to ... actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  to nearly half his usual size and had none of the jovial playful spirit ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades ... encourage students to send those types of grades if they have them, because
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -term freshmen to recent alums returning to regale us with tales of life after

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... continuing to grow elsewhere. The idea of flying 6 hours (+/- the 3 hour time ... -stubborn brain, to be honest. I didn't immediately have the "IHTFP" (of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next ... . Ignore any of those "RECORD NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS APPLYING TO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... several ways to interpret this word, and I mean each of them; I don ... begun to take matters into their own hands after decades of protest and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... country song to sell over a million copies, Vernon Dalhart’s version of ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... wonderful way to take my MIT journey above and beyond! Living and working in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011