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• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  will defend myself by saying the following: 1. The title is an allusion ... paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  ) to having conversations with women affected by the epidemic to being ... apprehensive and nervous going into South Africa. I didn't want to be the ... have had to live with the reality that is being fought in the first place

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist ... can be tough because it feels like there's nothing that you can do, but—if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a ... future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going on to be an astronaut on the next generation of space vehicles. As much

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be ... raising his own son to be a nerd. And Ann Hoevel trying to sort out the ... to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  than for some young researcher to be tagged "the new Einstein," so don ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... the rush process, or pledging, or being a brother, and in that there ... raised to stand by my beliefs; the things I think to be true about life

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  will let you know what we're missing in the future. We're not ... documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: " ... send it again?!" (Please no.)   The answer to all these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ever. Each week we spend the first hour or so of class learning about ... [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... -18, the “booklets” changed into strips (perhaps meant to be bookmarks ... photo would be the thing that would keep me grounded through a semester I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... ; I'd seen (and we've posted) MIT: The Movie (1992), which was (unbelievably) still used on fall travel recruitment well into the aughts. There

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... like being touched. Distinct from the typical drift between lapsed ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound effect- Now you might be wondering... what the heck is The Equalizer ... that I was taking 2.00b: Toy Product Design this past semester. Over the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  Alright so my laptop is alive again! :P Sorry for the lateness! ><" Here are the Valentine's Day pictures that I got! The first entry comes ... in the back!) The second entry is from Emily C., from San Jose

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my ... friends. I saw how peaceful and beautiful the campus could be during the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008