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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... . Very few people actually know how to pronounce "Stata." I've had just as ... actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  your body is in, and I can’t really explain them other than legs are in ... sparring steps. I still am not sure how one would be able to use this in ... time during sparring, and I can’t really objectively judge how it went

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  can take in one semester without breaking your brain. You're welcome, of ... lab class in the same term if you can help it (they're often all offered ... year -- maybe one of the UA-connected bloggers could chime in? I guess

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... have indigenous wildebeests) "Okay, we're in Kenya, smartypants. I don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  passed over the reins, on that low. I can't really describe how scarring ... fantastically. I'm sorry that I can't be there in person to watch the match, but I ... for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... horrified look on my face in 2004 when I realized that there were no hot dogs ... place anybody in four generations of my family came from is Indiana. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

   made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... can still check out research in Course 24-2 (a program in Language and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... piercer named Owen. He allowed Priscilla and I to be in the piercing room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... 's taught me how to keep walking, even when I'm going against the wind. It's showed me exactly the value of knowing exactly how many smoots away I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  process and your talents can be considered with your other talents in your ... process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... . Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  do how can you really get the most out of the experience? I hope you ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018