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• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while ... , you", and this is one of those times. WELL PLANNED, YOU.] Change - it ... is the best advice I can give to someone trying to choose between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  MIT MUN delegation gets from students from other MUN teams is, "Aren ... is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... conferences. I personally think that doing MUN is a very welcome break from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one ... strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  . Pictures may show up if Jeff '10 is nice enough to let me use them. (Please ... Children of Eden rehearsal, which is a miracle because I am notoriously bad ... Jess is special and I am, well, not. Blizz queries: How'd you pick your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I ... bag. And I thought, hmmm, two 23-kg bags is just about 100 pounds now ... as JKim, but this is because by the time you have gone to MIT for three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  's baby really happened. Okay, this entry is not really negative, but I ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  , this is an MIT blog, I figured that my general readership would be nerdy enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... imagine "casually drinking" from a flask is one of the less threatening

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... the 2006 World Cup is "a time to make friends." Who wouldn't want to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  Friday night was Burton 3rd's "Anything But Clothes" party, which is ... -clothing-really-cool-all-purpose material is there? I know! Zip ties! (I spent about 5 minutes on the duct ... Adelaide!) A caution cape is also exactly what it sounds like: At the party

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... given me an excuse. Look what you've done now. The short answer is the old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  your own risk. And, believe me, this is gonna be a long one. Still, I ... this picture of Clay from TV Guide: I have no idea why Clay is holding ... screen. Of course, since the desk computer is public, now everyone knows

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... that I never bothered to memorize it. Starting next month, MIT is going ... people have similar trouble with T-Mobile, which is unsurprising since even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this ... from time to time - our door is almost always open. If you're not here in ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get ... ='It is hard to exaggerate the degree to which Paul — who was not a tall man ... for Public Service is named. After earning his bachelors, masters, and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... extensive blogpost on why I love this class and why this class is great. Ed Schiappa is a great professor and he's honestly helped me through so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  is a blog post about the behind the scenes process featuring Open ... B_GzbdQDRZsGTHk0tWAwKHHQ%3A1678655290729%26source%3Dln&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjIs ... kinda fast and is [annotation note="probably easier to animate hehe and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... once every two or three hours, but, in what is perhaps not a great omen

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  is outrageous and is borderline criminal), and a whole new outlook on ... currently is, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about that yet. BUT WAIT ... new perspective. The first thing I discovered is that the T is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... hindsight is 20/20. Or whatever my current prescription is since my eyes are

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... -of-year" rankings, though, is that every major magazine/newspaper always releases them

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024