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• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more ... office when I suddenly realized that I hadn't actually blogged about my new role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn't ... [/annotation] and I'm just so happy to find genuinely such good guys." There's a ... fact that I am a "maybe" fuck for them. And when I express that I don't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... glory. I am pretty sure that I don't have pink eye because I've had a red ... I study a bit more for physics. Because I didn't feel comfortable

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the point where a ... got his first bad grade at MIT, he knew that it wasn't a disaster, but ... write me if you need more information about taking a gap year, I'm happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  trash heap. Guess who doesn't? MIT! Well, mostly. MIT still throws out a ... ! Maybe I got a bit carried away at the end, there. We didn't actually pick ... collect a nine foot tall cactus named Bubba. Yes, I'm serious. And to think

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  an hour in the T-Club Lounge, learning a Jazz/Contemporary dance piece ... process a zillion times before, and I can’t imagine that I would have been ... ballet between the ages of four and nine. Next weekend, I’m going to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

      If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such ... Northeast without power but promptly turned into a miserable deposit of slush ... know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... released, which was really annoying"]kind of a mood.[/annotation] It wasn't ... my last one. As a senior, I don't really see the point in having my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  someone has a problem, we can't stop ourselves from helping. There is no ... helpfulness doesn't extend only to MIT students -- if you come here on a visit ... stop any random undergrad in the hallway and say "Hi, I'm a prefrosh and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  ) your upper level math class at a community college, don't miss the class ... blog from the road whenever I can find a wifi connection. And if I'm ... the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I’m ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow, but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  Simmons has a ballpit, so I guess I’m sort of the expert here, aren’t I? I ... -inch plywood instead—that stuff bends! You can’t use that for a floor!) After we ... , but then I’m a little possessive of my ballpit.) In its short life

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  : I don't bake as much bread these days as I did a couple years ago ... probably won't go back to TJ's for most of the semester, it might be a short ... use them when I'm making a quick meal, but I'm more on my game with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn”t ... top of that, I”m a news editor for The Tech, which requires me to be ... As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . I hadn’t. If I had taken my medications. I hadn’t. In a moment of ... perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t ... Bangladesh, my childhood best friend’s favorite hiding spot from over a decade

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . (I'm sure there's a metaphor in there somewhere about being an MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don't ... ="attachment_45467" align="alignnone" width="535"] Jo M. 'GRT comfy in the back of a U ... ! Keys janky? Please fix it. I'm begging you. The B flat key doesn't work

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019