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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... estimate. I sent those 28 shirts off to a nice Etsy store that turns your old ... tells you what to do after that. I was floating around in a swamp swimming

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can promise you. If you received such a letter, you have every right to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  ! You're responsible! Be operator for a few hours!" So, now I get to feel ... put it all in a safe place with the operator. I took a picture for your ... , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... sums of several hundreds. It could get crazy in there and it wasn’t hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... ? In between, we took a sports facilities tour, learned about nutrition ... confidential talk with a substance abuse counselor about your alcohol issues (or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... in a past renovation, students specifically requested them to be ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  stuck in your head for days on end, returned to conducted the BSO (he was the principal conductor from 1980 to 1993) in a special event called ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... ’s hard sometimes to stay creative and productive in your artwork with ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor, take your plantain chips, oregano, and garlic powder and crush to your ... yams in a can. Blend the sweet potatoes with a little water or milk. Add

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  need in order to build a project, and you can shop around if there’s a ... into a host of international development issues. Whether your passion is ... cause poverty to continue in developing countries. In January (MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night ... entirely in bed with a high fever, getting over what I learned was probably

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  outside to take a break and get some fresh air. It was, however, raining, so ... ; and in that moment I thought to myself that if my life were a movie that ... 's comforting, in a way – when things can't get worse, it means they can only get

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party ... wrote the blog about the Bombers in 2020, I fully anticipated to have a ... were told that there are a lot of rules we need to keep in mind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working ... admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  getting a lot of emails from professors. I was supposed to have a 6.006 exam ... like? How would it have felt to get to watch my friends in the Class of ... hopefully closer to normal. But more on that in a future post.

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... you're on a different planet. The grass goes away, leaving the chewed

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018