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• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  beat, and a high-pitched beep every two seconds. My sheets were warm and ... and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... my likely very short tyranny my two plants had witnessed a hurricane

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... 't hired until I was a bitter, jaded junior, when I'd completely forgotten ... upon their inception, there is a lone yet chillingly effective guideline

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look. As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center convenience store for a pb&j bagel sandwich because we had a hard track ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a ... : do be sure that if you have a flight at Logan at 6:45pm that you leave ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was ... during those five minutes, but not even a jiggle could resuscitate its

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  ; however, we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among ... images into your posts to make them interesting. To be considered for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  students do whatever they find worthwhile – whether it’d be a mini ... !) taking a class (many people do. ‚ò∫) Browse around this year’s IAP site for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... answering questions and debunking myths. But I'm a senior this year, and after

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house, the commotion was a welcome change and a nice bend toward normalcy for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... . Last year I thought it was hilarious because each of my classes had a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside ... more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008