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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... about every teaching award that MIT gives (including the Baker Award for ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  convenience store for a pb&j bagel sandwich because we had a hard track ... . Still, serving up two entrees with leftovers each week is mighty ... little mustard in with the cheese. Now, my recipe called for nutmeg to be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... use of magic that is completely foreign to me, we came up with one ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Cornellians to the poll in numbers sufficient for Big Red to catch up. "We ... academic futures for Alex Doonesbury: Should she go to Rennselaer, Cornell ... , rampant, ingenious, and impressively ruthless. An MIT student put up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... like that, so we ended up passing around his backup hat all night on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... will anyone have to stand up here and welcome the first female president ... , Paul Gray, and Chuck Vest. Finally, the moment we'd all been waiting for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out ... .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  came. Some would call me foolish for getting this wrapped up in the job ... up the mail (for real), so it's on the way. I'll be thinking about all ... folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... choosing classes. Everyone has a different goal for their MIT career: someone ... [annotation note="Or whichever future semester I'm planning for."]this semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  last stop for the bus, I considered setting an alarm to wake myself up in ... The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... , and this month especially, I've found myself curled up in my room, too

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... backfired when I ended up with a bunch of Zoom meetings every day, as opposed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... serve as your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... trying to do Biochem Psets, to eating the Grill's pizza, notorious for it ... there was an immense diversity of people, some of whom were quite... for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008