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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... to test and troubleshoot their products. In the case of an access

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience

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

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story ... people down. To watch mamma Mia tn in main lounge. [5:46 PM] Nicole H. '22 ... single mother and hotel owner, Donna, is about to get married. Sophie has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... gigantic carry-ons into the opposite overhead compartment, you have to get up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how ... enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their ... often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... every passing day here at MIT — how to not beat myself up over turning in ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and I'll get to it soon. ------------------------------------- M.D. wrote ... recommend getting materials to us by early February, and Midyear Grade Report

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... in physics party pad. We used all this space to watch TV vigorously and ... interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004