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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  to relax in #1, it does help if you do a bit of pondering before your ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  spooky formatting ghosts. I recommend drafting your posts in a free plain ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the iTunes Podcast. If you'd like to subscribe and use a podcatcher other than i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not necessarily things that we are expected to do, etc.... and then when he spoke ... On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E ... for a time in my life when my novel would have space to breathe. In ... you were, for the first time in your life, too exhausted to write when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  , unless you want to take 7.014 because you're a huge fan of ecology and ... doesn't exist for a semester or seven and take it in your last term at MIT ... 's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... hope to bridge gaps, not in knowledge or reason or respect, but in two ... national sense of patriotism, or a common commitment to individual liberty

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... get a cannoli And if you get a cannoli, you must find a nearby park to ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free ... friends in random places is always a happy time. 5. As we came back to our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... than your average student activity. Its primary purpose is to prepare MIT

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in ... of the screen A: eh give it a race or two A: you'll get used to it B ... after a while we just B: get used to it A: uh A: well A: do you wanna

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get your letter by March 18, please give us a call. Right now, the decision ... In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... 's application, no matter how strong, isn't enough to get one accepted. We deferred

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005