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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  Garfield has Spider-Man on lock. How to Win Friends and Influence People A ... in how a few greats, such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie ... week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  room). Now get off my back, Mom. Uh, I mean.. now on to our regularly ... I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... Office. I also love getting discounts as an MIT affiliate at the Boston ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  rest, I was completely back to normal. The issue is that I'm behind in ... back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words.  Which means that you get weird

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... .” “But if [the refugees] are willing to wait in line for 2 and a half years

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  my entry, which is referenced in the title, I'd just like to say that ... was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the ... in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up ... realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... eating in my dorm, this usually is enough food to last a week. I typically

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... really relate to. .... then we all got here in the fall and haven't seen ... , and in some cases, on my floor. As freshmen, we aren't supposed to know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess ... all the music she listens to, so she must have really good taste in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  roll your eyes at us. In all actuality, I am really excited to call you ... all the people that get in! 9:00 pm Successfully called Marc R. after ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is ... still resonate today. What he was able to accomplish in the 1920’s in terms of set design and special effects is remarkable! Typical to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011