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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... , both to those who were admitted and those who were not. From reading your applications, I know how much energy and care you put into them. For

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will ... week I had), so I paid way too much for some tickets and decided to go

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House ... life on this earth, which I think serves to illustrate that this has

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon to hang out with Rachel F ... -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee ... , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  not need to have a current blog, we have found that students who already ... committee to read the entries you'd like us to see. (You don't need to clean ... pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  once class was over. ;) See? You can get to know your TAs this well here ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  gone to school back home. I've learned so much about the world here ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... -starting people; cool ideas pop into their heads and off they go to make them into ... there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006