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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  make sure we were okay. We were stunned on two levels, first by the news, and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to ... you hold on to the light, to the dreams you’re proud to have, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  warnings. Eventually I reached the top, or near enough to it; climbing the ... on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  Stu, and on many other people in our office too. The book has been out ... it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well: College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... on those later. At the end of the summer, I returned to MIT for pre

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better ... class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  experience. Revitalized by all of these things, I decided to take on the ... March, I made it to the second round of the intro CS internship mentioned ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  into Becky '12, another freshman on the floor. "Hey Becky, want to go ... the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... walks up, on her way back to the dorm from somewhere. She looks at us

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  Observatory to give talks, mine on pulsars and Raphael's on the exploration of ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on ... I'm sitting on my bed, back against the windowsill and sneakered feet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the ... to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  , facilitated all the prefrosh joining and being able to reach out to students ... bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX ... generally try to keep on top of things at start of the semester, it is a bad

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  camera?) off to my boyfriend, climbed into the "cockpit", and oriented myself to the controls. First thing I noted was that it was different from the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the ... scheduling second doses. My bag and my bike helmet sit on the ground. I feel ... sing along to the pre-recorded audio. Someone turns on the click track

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew into Quebec on Saturday right after classes ended. The whole trip from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  identify anyone, so I'll just link to the big version: MTB Party Group Photo Second, another big thanks to Kris Brewer and Larry Gallagher from MIT TechTV, who worked tirelessly during CPW to capture our various events on video

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  private blog on substack in the past; they make it pretty easy to control ... literally illegal for me to be on the summer payroll due to restrictions ... stocked up on food stores from the plentiful fall, i too shall go hibernate

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... friendly and helpful. (We're going to need that on Wednesday, when the ... probably the simplest thing I ever had to do on a computer but hey! It worked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005