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• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  frozen for a couple months of the year. So I grabbed the opportunity at MIT ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  work? 1. Gaze in wonder at the 600+ works of art at the Student Loan Art ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... that when I look at it, I can find some form of enjoyment in the visual

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of ... sound of an F1 car testing at the nearby Fiorano track. Familiar town ... and goals of our projects and our way of thinking and working at Smart

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  . It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... according to one of the workers at OSG, that means I tried really, really hard ... for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of the Metabolite Profiling Initiative at the Broad Institute here at MIT ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... weather. I bought a math textbook and a book of french poetry at a used ... to NYC to spend a couple of days at our respective homes. [carousel

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... around and looked at plants all day, read a lot of books. basically I loved

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  audience was shedding tears of joy and cheering as Bernoulli pulled Tim into ... no the dog 10:57 Exchange of rings 11:35 Petey declares them beaver ...   The Planning A bunch of my friends on Beast (2E) planned this

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at ... of four classes. It was fewer units than I'd taken at any point during ... 'm getting better at being a person, in all the little corners of myself, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  orders of magnitude. You're like an exa, and I'm at a centi." What's more ... English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into ... less “great unknown” to distract me than at the start of the year. The ... I’ve been reminded of how much I love home. But at least I’m headed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  , which made some of the not water-proof supplies fall out of the box. At ... stuff as possible to get at least something out of my first career fair. I ... ), but some notable things I remember at desk: just handfuls of coleslaw

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the ... July 16. I'm wondering who among you will be outside of a bookstore at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I ... dropped out some classes at the end of a semester because they took too many ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe-inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my ... blogger Sam, and at the awesome Battle of the Bands event on the last night

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... . I leave Boston at 8 AM Eastern. I arrive at SFO, run into several of my fellow recruits (most of us have interviewed at other programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006