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• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  'm not sure who came up with the idea of a windowless brick cylinder for a ... as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is ... ?" Yes, MIT is infamous for accumulating a collection of unusual and (dare

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  up or ease its descent. This two-football-fields-long concept airship ... cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good ... -management system will serve the same purpose as trim on an airplane, allowing for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... a fireplace (even if it is boarded up and non-functional, as are most ... month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  ) Classes MIT Geocache Photo Exhibit Food for Thought Beyond the Library ... complete list) come and set up booths in Johnson, and students can choose ... companies are looking for students in your major, and for what kind of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy ... and the atmosphere, cleaned up the data, and then compared the stars

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... was, but it's who I've become, for a variety of reasons. Maybe sometime ... is almost as old as I am? He was supposed to interview me for my job

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  friends, many are acquaintances. Furthermore, MIT has several programs for ... 'm writing this as a PSA so you won't be as surprised when you walk up to a ... . For me, meeting people online felt much easier than trying to do it all

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  to mature. But no. It's gotten to the point where friends come up to me ... default to one of these shirts. Anyways, as I was unpacking my clothes for ... figured I'd give a mini tutorial for any interested at home.  

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... out of bed before noon. this february i’m up at 8 am every day of the ... ’t always just wait for spring to arrive.

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  academia phase – it’s a surprise I hadn’t picked this book up earlier. I ... time to read it. Turns out, I’m still the same person that grew up on ... love letter to New York? I was hooked. So hooked, even, that I waited for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only ... matters to you won't always line up with what matters to others. if none of your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  ??), try to follow a squirrel around for over 20 minutes Kidist ’22- hmm turn ... get there) Margaret ’23- Very honest list here: 1. Sit for a while by a ... /pastry 4. Cook something, see chemistry cook up in your pan/pot, watch how

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get ... sit down and actually catch up on my Japanese and plow through these ... but everybody was so attractive. i cannot wait for the second season

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... time for our hero to venture out and slay that which had haunted him

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... , save for the mechanical whirring that plague every dorm basement, we got ... ! Unfortunately, as other responsibilities and stresses started catching up to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019