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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  “deferred” a decade ago in favor of MIT. Guided by a gut feeling, I ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... life. The film is oriented around this theme, demonstrated by the three

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and ... anniversary tour and two Christmas concerts of questionable quality by a ... Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  questions by importance, is the necessity of gradation. If you rank everything ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all ... organized by suites of 4-12 people, each with its own kitchen and bathroom ... I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Tuesday brought a party at the Stata center hosted by several of MIT ... ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  ) -- Planned by Bryan and company and headlined by Ben, what kind of blogger ... that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By ... things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  ,[/annotation]my hobby of drawing didn't. I joined window painting, started sketching ... [annotation note="which will thankfully never be read by anyone"]started a Wix book ... stories of younger me, they almost always tell me they’re surprised I ended

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  is an awesome person, by the way. How so? He just has a great sense of ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  by COVID (RIP Tradeshow Industry). Sadly this means no all-day Animal ... 't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a ... 't is because they might think it's outside of the scope of an admissions ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an ... , and Nadeem Mazen '06, proprieter of digital design and consulting firm Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  little exasperated by the amount of fire alarms. Here's a glimpse at what ... alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other hand, is getting slapped around by the fire gods as if it was nothing

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help ... our Professors about cutting-edge research, cool discoveries, and all of

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] "Sometimes after I take off, I ... ." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC ... the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  to be the location of a mansion that was owned by the city and ... of downtown Boston. I knew that this semester would be particularly tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020