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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... reading applications because they are a lot like doing jigsaw puzzles. When

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  I'm sorry I didn't have time to talk longer. It's been nice to see ... Alia in Seattle. I'm working on a Questions Omnibus for this week, as ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  you niggers--” ** I don’t know why I’m writing this. I’m not quite ... is a problem. We feel like dogs. We feel like we don’t matter. So the ... luggage bags, rolled into a car with my five siblings and my mom and my dad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  don’t need a graduation requirement to convince me to take that! First ... ice (I’m from SoCal. The only kind of ice we have comes in a citrusy ... A) you don’t have to worry about maxing out the freshman credit limit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  ): I'm not sure I had ever seen a horse when I was that age. The final ... glowing red dials. We looked at M3 (a globular cluster), Saturn (we could ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  my throat because I’m already starving, or I take a walk around campus ... . Right now, my research is running a lot of simulations that doesn’t ... , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin ... time, even though I was still only a student. After graduating from M.I.T

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  these blogs are just a glorified PR trick. I'm not going to waste any time ... about, wouldn't that be a much better (and productive) use of the time ... stand out from the application to the point that a reader won't even

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don't ... ] "Ball." ME: [pfft] If I'm being honest, it wasn't the most brilliant ... about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... electron microscope laboratory. Parafilm M has unique permeability properties ... reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  , right? I don't think I'm going crazy. On Monday I had my first shift on ... .... I'm the newest member of the IS&T (Information Services and ... ... ...you know what? I'm just not even going to go there. I don't even want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  for the first time. You know, if you're a girl and you didn't get your ... Happy Holidays everyone! I can't believe another semester's done and ... ). I'm now sitting at home, trying to relax but not quite, because there

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled ... blog post to a hat. Putting those in the discard pile. Excited? I'm excited! "And God, let me enjoy this. Life isn't just a sequence of waiting

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  does look like I'm having a crisis though...) ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  known how much I love my microplane. But a tweet didn’t feel like enough ... grating zucchini for a deliciously moist zucchini bread? Don’t be that guy ... ’s a bit hit or miss in terms of handling, but I don’t personally like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap ... the game, I'm still giving a strong recommendation to listen to the ... like a necessary part of it. It wouldn't be Celeste if you took away the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... . Tomorrow, I'm doing a puzzle hunt and I'll probably also be happily ... the way, I became a different person. IHTFP. Some things haven't

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010