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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  sort of recovery from burnout. I took on absolutely no responsibilities ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life ... every part of my application starting on August 1st I didn't start filling

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in ... ?" Of course this was okay with me. A few minutes later on that Sunday I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  about $20 on it for food. If you actually need any of it, you are again ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... ’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  to get on with the process of deciding among the schools that have ... major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... During the Meet the Bloggers party on friday, I sent the following ... when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  myself on the ground floor of the building, pretending to be lost in the ... work on our last pset together, and talk about a bunch of random stuff ... of my friends. i couldn’t constantly check on everyone who’s ever been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean ... the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  is also the co-sponsor of the largest career fair on MIT's campus ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  recognition is largely focused on the reputation of faculties that have not only ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European ... that pretty much everybody is bilingual. No, really. A lot of people just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  (this year, it begins at sundown on March 19). In the interest of keeping ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... immigrants, but truly experiencing it (even from the privilege of being on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013