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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... road that is somehow both Route 1 and Route 9 at the same time? I think ... , the regional EC chair, is simply a wonderful host. The Northern NJ

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”   I ... classes, and for the most part, I was right. My favorite class right now is ... beautiful idea. The class is hard for me, but I love it regardless, and feel

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric ... sleeping man, who had slumped over and is now sprawled out on the ground

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... in the moment, because my life is full and exciting and takes up all my ... life, even if it encompasses so much right now. The truth is that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  lovely faces on campus next year. According to one prefrosh, Sam is the ... turns to the other and says, 'Wow, is it me or is it hot in hereпњљ' The ... on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT The other side to that is that you can't get an ... no record. Another way to take advantage is to score the lowest ... 3) Nothing is new anymore During your first semester at MIT you'll be

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... knowledge, macgregor is currently in the lead with a whopping 13. go macgregor ... most notably, our logo is the Burning Man, which, as you can expect, is a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  aquamarine water, ran up the snow covered slopes with glee as if they had not ... involvement of the tour guides. So unfortunately, case not closed. Other than ... what MISTI is, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  not for the lazy. So back to our hypothetical biology undergrad --> ... because people think they're smart. Finally, if the postdoc has not been ... all the publications that come out of your lab. People do not usually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  whole life for this, right? The worst part is, that this feeling, as ... you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an ... leading up to that point, is like it’s own sprint, too. Life after, the jobs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse, across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... most often hear is that 20% of MIT students play a varsity sport. The

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... quotation from the article: "Díaz, pushing 40 but looking 30, is talking

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  . Being back home has made me realize that the person I am now is the person ... unabashedly. This is the person I was meant to be. And MIT gave me that chance ... at MIT. And while I know it's virtually impossible that MIT is the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  just trying to pass the class and put it on pnr, since 046 is notoriously ... 've wasted my time. and i know that sort of thinking is the textbook definition ... turn it in on wednesday." the good thing about hass professors is that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  blunt. I'm not afraid to call it as it is, and I'm usually the first to ... . Or how I should simply "care less." I think this is the same mentality ... problem, not mine." Once again, unsure if this is a good thing. I think I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  Eastwood's question: YES! We're designing (not building--the designing part ... a cell phone. A cell phone of the future. We're not actually using ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  'm listening to the first episode again, passively interested and not yet ... houses lately. Not just about the people that haunt them, but rather, the ... love so much is that a ghost always haunts the people in the house. In

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry ... Boston was. Well, obviously, the answer to that is "visit MIT," so we took ... , the Green Building is the tallest building that will ever be built in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... 't attend the performance.  But I can't truly blame him for not trying; after ... ’t happy. He asked, not for the first time, why I cared so much about this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011