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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  dorm room, make it a steaming mug of apple cider, and tell it stories

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  's aunt in Montana (long story; just roll with it). She lives in Hot Springs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  here? True story: it's likely that most people on the waitlist will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  Q&A, McCormick's spent about five minutes telling the story of how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  sense in political news coverage about whether a story is important. There

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  of Cambridge, MA with new stories to tell and new friends to race.   

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  transition. It's very cool. Anyway, I was telling a story. -The lights

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  I'm glad I'm five stories above it. To my left, a full-length red

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  can't wait to share my adventures and stories with you all, and I hope

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Stories! 23:17 Almost Life-Sized Settlers of Catan 24:17 Friday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  to defend the honor of the Y chromosome. The story starts hundreds of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  weaknesses. I think back to a story one of the bloggers told me about coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  : most of the horror stories I hear seem to come from the MIT kid tendency

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  , who also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. It's been a year since I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011