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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... GPA even in Course 9, after turning down the opportunity to "earn

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... should take a shower and I take long showers so I'll get to bed at maybe 2 ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... don't yet know in a location I don't yet know. I’ll be moving in to a ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... of (in good spirit)/ talk directly to specific people from the audience ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika ... Massachusetts (the first MIT grad to win that crown), and later competed in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  't mean for this to be uber-serious or anything. Just something to keep in ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I know, I know, three plays AND five elections and/or speakers, how does

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  , you literally won't be able to play. In that way, the frequent practice ... to skate. Another tour guide?! On our way to the next stop in our ... our tour! We didn't get to see everything, like the sailing pavilion

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  with students in a 2000 pilot program that allowed up to two dozen cats ... pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... droppings in common areas. College officials have also had to call animal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... , was female. In addition to discovering my stereotypes to be false, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog ... demonstrate your capacity to communicate: forum posts, a weekly editorial in the ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005