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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  managed to plug his way through the olympic fanfare and "Rubber Duckie," so ... , the cultural houses at MIT used to be in Burton-Conner, and Conner 2 was lucky enough to be home to Russian House. To help people learn Russian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  blindered by your work that you will never be able to look around and see what ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... odds of being seated at that dinner next to that Salomon Brothers lady

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  excited to join the blogs. I want to pay it forward - to be a window into ... 's not to say that I know what I'll be posting about over the next few ... transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you ... be held standing in a hallway, or even turn out to include a bunch of ... esteem by policymakers because we have the reputation of being credible

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you ... prefrosh are reading this, pls get your PE classes over with quickly so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  spring of last year, I realized I really wanted to be in California for the ... chances of finding a job were pretty dismal, so I tried to compensate by ... open yourself to opportunities. Important tips for bluffing your way

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and ... -language that is way simpler to use and more readable and robust than HTML, and it ... Jazz Club (which just so happens to be in Boston) to see Hiromi, who

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  to procrastinate. Give me reasons to procrastinate by asking me ... I'll get to every one. I'll probably be updating this post with my ... everything was virtual. But even then, people still found a way to make it fun

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... opportunities. Career Fair If I'm being honest, not a lot of undergrads seem to ... blood, and to be honest I would have done that too if I didn't have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  's an even older silent movie called Technology (1934) that was sent by reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  linear in any way or form and I don’t expect for it to be linear as I ... here is limited. We all deserve to love and be loved. Not just by others ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  making a difference. Oh, and by the way, the movie was great. Gowariker ... population, you may be able to see it in your region -- check it out! ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.  One way to ... human cognition to pose questions about ethics—how things should be. We

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production ... sense of immersion? The lights, sound, and set design tend to be more ... to the point of being unrecognizable, when the failure to be understood

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you, and I hope you don't turn down the Skype interview if you happen to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  way of putting it would be to say that I live in the stairwell between ... 's no way I'll ever be able to figure it out. So if you comment here ... -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  all the ways I've hyped up Random, only to leave it. I got a message that I was chosen by lottery to live in the house and my options were to ... bridge every day to get to class. It'll be weird not waking up to cats and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  on my way to Hollywood, but found Christopher Columbus, who pointed me ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... questions that I thought could be helpful to my nervous prospective student

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  be seen by the Admissions Committee (February will not be seen). If you ... yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... who is volunteering her time so everyone needs to be very respectful of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... ourselves being encouraged by the song. Elsa sings Into the Unknown when she ... voice. But by the end of the song, she enthusiastically decides to go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019