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• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love you all and thank you for being a part of my time at MIT <3  

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  's conclusion at the end of a lengthy economic analysis.)   ...and ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , compelling portrait of what kind of student and person I was at age 18. If I ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  class ring that MIT undergraduates receive at the end of their second year ... -Premiere. This year, our Delivery is going to be on May 5th, at the top of the ... classmates can get an idea of what they’ll actually look like. At Ring Delivery

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... —the company that created one of my favorite arcade games, Castle Crashers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  much different than the sort of thing you'd find at your local YMCA ... . Arguably the most famous route at Smith Rock (besides the one on the front of ... along at 1:13, and of course there's the glorious rappel at the end, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  brilliant. Some of these Dreamers are students at MIT. Recently they ... . But that wondrous source of vitality could be cut off at any time, for ... at the mercy of a single USCIS officer. If I had to return to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Purification of Green Fluorescent Protein for Bioprocess Applications," and at ... good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  claimed off of MIT's reuse mailing list at 2 AM one night. One of the GRT's in Random Hall bought a small nation's GDP-worth of cereal at Star ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  pulled enough all-nighters to take most of my showers at 4 AM, so this ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  , our residential life culture is a rich component of being a student at ... cantos at a time. Inspired by a close friend of mine (who has an ENTIRE SHELF of Isaac Asimov books at home) I went on a science fiction binge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... inheriting the position. Except at some point the French house of Foix merged ... whatever I wanted!!! Another fascinating aspect of teaching at the CFP was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... at Subway that I had on March 12th of 2005, the crumbs of which I have ... Boston a doormat at least twice in this entry. Appendix I: A map of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  I guess it shows that even after three years of being at MIT, I ... we were out so late at night. Well, this is the kind of thing you ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... and unstoppable. Watching her sprint down the left side of the field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... out at all for me.  But in the end, with help and advice from Kirsten L ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  a spectacular job at telling the many different stories of MIT as ... , I suspect, is because at least some of the commentary is moving to ... more than a distant reading of the blogs (at least, for this particular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their ... restored at my house -- I hope everyone who is still without power (and ... brother off at his college yesterday (classes start today), and as far as we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006