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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  started MIT, I never once expected to stay here for this long (partly ... disguise...kind of) and still have managed not to pull an all-nighter (for ... studying, switching from mechanical engineering to a completely different

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  shut the door and do homework when you need to do that. Some friends of ... TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season ... that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  rose to, “If you have fears about your ability to handle the workload ... -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things ... admission to 30 additional students. Matt has said pretty much everything I ... admitted, do you guys get to just relax until fall travel starts up again

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... '08, my suitemate from San Antonio, TX, returned to campus today, just in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to ... to be! Here's some general tips and comments I have about UROP hunting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... possible and set aside time during our weekend to have fun CPW events like ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and ... smaller things. "We need your money give it to us" (my favorite one so far ... Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  It snowed on Saturday. Here's what I woke up to on Sunday. [caption id="attachment_50082" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] needs more l o o m i n g  s h a d o w and weather-dirtied window[/caption] And here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page ... ://scripts-cert.mit.edu/~paniagua/tempdorms/index.php Note that you will need MIT certificates.

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... squid flesh.” Twixt bus stop to the East and hot dog stand to the West ... to black polished submarines, I suffered a J.D. Salinger moment. A sigh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015