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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point ... Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: the namesake is the only short story to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... the signals that cells use to communicate, and laying bare the sources ... technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... -packed schedule includes activities relating to arts, energy, sciences, engineering ... activity, too, and I'm really looking forward to how people respond to it

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location ... she would get to know our (quirky, unique) students on a new campus, and Dr. Kornbluth talked about her "open-access" approach and intent to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  bubble too much, and you stop to realize that there is a world out there ... . Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow ... out. Maybe you're planning on pulling an all-nighter tonight and to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... ’s sorta sketchy, so I see the cop cars, and the cops talking to a woman

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being ... particularly bad nightmare, but nothing much to complain about, and, surprisingly ... much more to discover—it is a wonderful feeling to have at last. And, of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement ... position, I receive emails from students and although I do my best to respond

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them ... more tenuous (I was pretending to be Ruth's date and she's a minor) but ... combination. This person is MIT '10 and he came down from Hazleton, PA to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  , he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... young age, my sister and I were raised with his itch to travel, with that ... seatbelts, I was always exclaiming “that was AWESOME!” and racing to ride

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  for our class picture and is where we will come together once again to ... Committee, are chosen to redesign the ring and add little details that recall ... constant fight to achieve balance in our social and academic lives. Athena

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  begun! And orientation is about to begin! I'm writing from home, but I can ... orientation and pre-orientation is to meet as many people as humanly possible ... to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... ! Adjacent to the woodshop and full of machinery for your metalworking needs

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  practices, a capella rehearsals, study sessions, and much more. Right next to ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be ... for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or ... one of those "use revolving door to conserve energy" signs Energy is ... then we got to lagrangian and it was so beautiful" ***** person 1: aw

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008