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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business. Sororities at MIT are quite large, with about 80-100 members, so it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the ... , sorry, I just really like this door... and need a picture of it. Right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  miles from MIT, at the end of the orange line T) [caption id ... Newburyport, MA, bike through the coastline of New Hampshire, stop at a lobster ... ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... . At MIT, with these flowers comes the optimism of students. They signify ... her at the time, but I had started to feel the hefty impact of my feet

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... passed, word spread, and a crowd of spectators would gather at the chosen ... in all sorts of forms and at all different levels. But no matter what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ... The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  previous years). At the end of the course, teams present their work to a live ... It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  I did many things this weekend during CPW: -met you. As I said at ... 's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians, people! -dumped (with the aid of other SH residents) six thousand neon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... computer managing the news department of The Tech like I normally do as well

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6:28 p.m., you probably experienced a barrage of feelings. These might ... being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  together, becoming absolutely astonished at the variety of programs out there ... sleep out of the 48. At the end, I hopped in a cab back to the airport ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of what happened there, but I know the way Ruth came to be at my ... bodies of children would be curled up with mine at night. Ruth’s sister ... named after two of his close friends in childhood, who had died at 12 and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018