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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  to all of Ring Comm and thank you for your hard work. The ring is ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  . Unfortunately, by the time I get there it's pretty late, and (probably due to the ... inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... that there is room on the 7:30ish flight if I want to try and get on that

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... part activist. We called our first meeting "Bring it to the Table." We

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note ... , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... some way to recreate the joy of in-person science bowl in a pandemic ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational ... the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  moved all the way across the country, from Southern California to the DC ... to 9am, which I...was not awake for. We all started the day by working ... up to drive us to Best Buy for our HDMI cable and to the grocery store

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  there is no direct way of getting criticism on the blogs, I am usually my ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... way to burn out, and is probably a sign that you have been poorly managing your time since the beginning of the semester. (Note to future self

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really ... Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is ... . Another deterrent to unsavory characters is the campus police force. They

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  final choice and know that we wish you all the very best. After getting to ... got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who ... mad that I didn't get into that third school...maybe MIT wasn't the best

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... , this is likely to be the case for you as well ... better place. Remember that there are many ways to make the world better

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  definitely the way to go!" Arthur '61, NY: "As you know, there is intense competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... about how the interview is an effort to get to know the student as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  four digits which is unique to our specific person. It’s crazy the way we ... how powerful it is to you…but I think it’s amazing the way that that ... to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of ... heated debates about these questions; drop your best arguments in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015