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• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  to MIT? I think the way that I see it is if you've ever read one of ... that it is both fun and worthwhile to get to know the people that you ... assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... 'm frustrated by is that learning this lesson of commitment to your path is

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , and the evolution of galactic structure. [This, by the way, is taught by ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... . Behold, the death of 3-month vacation heralded by this monstrosity of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  meeting where a simple disagreement between the best way to proceed ... by the end of this semester. This feverish work is interrupted several ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a ... . For the project to be successful, we had to beat them. ICE is fairly ... the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... end Professor X goes to the president and is all, "Mutants aren ... . Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... weeks you read titles on the way to class. You are taking three ... sounds fun. Most people only get to take one.   I read the blogs my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  give out. Basically, all you have to do is go up while the ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true ... the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the ... to my room after having left the door open and I'll close it on my way

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... before coming to MIT is that I would be working all the time. Granted, I ... your best. 3. Smile when faced with a challenge. 4. Sing in the shower. 5

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... reason why you wear 3-D glasses is to feed different images into your eyes ... one image to enter each eye, and your brain does the rest. You cannot

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT-alum-run Clover Food Truck, the food trucks are always been home to fast, affordable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  BEST WAY TO END THE NIGHT!!! THIS SHOW MADE US DUMB SMILE FOR LITERALLY ... ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours ... to stay! By the time we got very close to the ticket booth, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  thing about MIT, #262, is that you quickly learn to not take surveys ... -acclaimed street photographer in the meantime. The first step to a Pulitzer is to set your camera to greyscale. (At the African Burial Grounds, where a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... many African Americans go to MIT. By the way I am African American as ... you to the common data set which is information compiled by Institute

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  phase, and was so awestruck by the movies that I instantly wanted to find ... it. By the end of my final year, I had enough of the pieces to begin ... your lips on this warm night. You can see why he has to do it, why the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  how to breathe underwater. When W.W.W. returned home, exhausted by the ... , the way I'm talking to you right now. My next blog post, in one week ... crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  this: the point of college is to become educated. And in some ways, MIT ... Prefroshling, everything is numbered. Get used to it. Also, when I asked the ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  point in the same direction and stay that way. Add them up, and you get a ... One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... onto your cold-making box. I like to think about sticking-together rocks

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... CONTAINS YOUR DECISION." But surely the webpage is lying. The decisions won ... Another Believer by Rufus Wainwright begins to play in the background

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024