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• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... Ruth. Then, on the way back from dinner, we were discussing Sam, Mitra ... checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 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
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  are expected to be influenced by MIT's approach. Read the full story at ... nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with engineering to create a new biological engineering discipline. Many other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  to him when he came by. We chatted at length about MIT, his current ... be applying to MIT this year. At the end of June I had the opportunity to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  approach to hamentashen should be a bit interesting. How does a single cell ... to fold into a hamentashen. Hamentashen can never be folded into a ... 8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so ... taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in ... ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... what would a blog entry be without a vocabulary lesson? Here's a few ice

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  can be hard to remember that every product we use is ultimately made by ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  finishing, not being able to eat my dinner, and then passing out for like four ... aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  images to be used to promote the campaign All the while developing the ... Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I will be here (in Hilo, HI) for 2 months (June

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... to be asking themselves nowadays (although in language notably more ... , be specific about how your college or university contributed to these

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010