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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  and the court gets all muddy and before you know it your pants are wet ... , helpful things to guests. As I walked by the security tent at the foot of ... best seats in the house. Right up close, next to the center aisle, next

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of ... to discover it. A good way to maybe think about it is CPW is a taste of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things ... person, when it suited me, goes to the intensely frustrating physics class

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  years I went to school here. But the coolest part is that when this four ... to visit the campus. Alumni Leadership Conference, Campus Preview ... to the place although I really didn’t have a spot to call my own on the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  committee. More likely though, it is due to my sluggish 40-something metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... interested to read about the way that exercise changes our metabolic makeup. As

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  Gerberding and the CDC are trying to address is the fact that the U.S. is ... to 1954. The purpose of the lectureship is to give the MIT community ... added this to my “10 reasons why I love MIT”: the lectures! We get to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send the deposit? No deposit is required. Just be sure to send in the form ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  people to act as insurgents and hostages, I jumped at the opportunity. The prison is fairly far away from MIT, but UNH had arranged for us to travel ... from ideal, and the ride was a bit shaky. The cadet next to me vomited up

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... to save space, which left us with the entire space to rearrange at our

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The ... don't know what casing the joint means 2) FRANK WILCZEK IS TALKING TO ME ... final paper (due Thursday) is meant to be 2000 words; the idea was to make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  condition, because I really felt at that point that the only way to get worse would be to get better because there wasn't any possible way I could feel ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second ... waiting list to move during the semester. But even if you're unable to live

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  the hard way that proving you're right rarely ever proves anything to ... . Doing challenging things outside my comfort zone is the only way to grow ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether ... sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... for admission to the Class of 2012! By the time I graduate, I will have

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  content with the way my life is right now. i’m less lost than i was, which ... , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... guessed it) Head of the Charles. The best part of racing is winning, which ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012