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• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... length of our cooldown for it to sink in to me-we had made the podium! But ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... activities and especially in-house rush (when Macgregor freshmen pick entries ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  goal for this trip was to soak everything in, the environment, people ... in a true Mens et Manus fashion, find inspiration for my final project ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... put "vacation" in quotations not because it wasn't wonderful - it was ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force. ... ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... illustrated in such dramatic form, so young, for it to exist. A lot of you have ... Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class ... allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... complete INDEPENDENCE. At least for now, I'm happy to stay in the kitchen a ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  longing for nostalgia after leaving home that suddenly piqued my interest in ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... good fit for yourself can feel high-stakes. I was super nervous about

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  . Last thing you were excited about Fatima> i was in New York for a ... questionable(?) in a specific field. for example, the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize in ... work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... even took it to Beacon Hill in Boston for some street skiing laps during ... in our league (and many other leagues) for seniors to dress up and race

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my ... for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... existing this summer. And my actual self really wanted to go home for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere, the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008