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• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  , but it was the third day of term; I had to go to class, and, to be ... top of that, I”m a news editor for The Tech, which requires me to be ... As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... intramural sport. Didn't get to be Undergraduate Association President ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  , I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It really sounds like an oxymoron to me, but hey, don't knock it til you try it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA ... where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will ... mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Sunflower, an incubation bed that can be used in developing countries to ... Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that's happened to me this semester. As I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier ... . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  -gritty, and so if you don't learn everything, you could be screwed. I went to ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  don't know what to do." "They seem to be doing something right, maybe ... class is meant to be hard, shouldn't I be okay? Shouldn't I be satisfied ... will always linger. I can't fit myself into the boxes that seem to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... night's sleep in three days. DID YOU KNOW? Building 66, designed by MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be ... control. As Dan's story shows, some things that seem bad turn out to be a blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... for summer research programs my GPA is too low for me to be accepted ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  you'd be surprised by what happens. III. As I write this entry, I can ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... moment to notice the Green Building, standing taller than any other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  seeing Prof. Diaz talk without being interrupted by Stephen Colbert, check ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT ... , there are dozens of alumni-hosted events going on; it should be pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006