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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... 've been present at least six or seven of these emergencies, and it ... combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... been to a Bruins game, but two of my best friends, Anna '08 and Maria '08, won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week ... . It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie. It's also kind of crazy to be able

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an essay in ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts section was about the Korean pop star Rain: At 23, Rain, who has been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admit Letters... Actually, this photo only shows about half of the admit letters, as overall there were 4 buckets of The Big Envelope. Speaking of envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at ... was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and ... " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... option and an afternoon option. Since only 32 classes at MIT out of over ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... of my friends, one that I met at TechCrunch DisruptNY, messaged me with ... of Shark Tank in my dorm room late at night. The Sharks were some of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it was at 14 during that time or at 20 sitting outside the stud as when I ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... look at how the sketch is going. That's why some of the details and ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  industry. Thank you to Rosario and Hilda at Softtek for taking care of ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  can only capture, at most, one ten-thousandth of the grace that Gloria ... TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... externalities (which "arise whenever the actions of one party make another party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman ... I had started off with the goal of piecing together my life at MIT ... things to happen at certain time frames. But what we see in the stories of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  top of our lungs at the stroke of midnight to keep ourselves awake for ... of these blogs. At first I thought keeping a blog would be a silly ... College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but ... incredibly proud of her. At the same time, I (and I am not alone) don't know ... It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... expanding my horizons and becoming at least somewhat skilled in the realm of C ... playing skills at all hours of the day). But I think I would have been ok

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025