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• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  you really wanted to embarrass (uh...) in the middle of class. By far ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here ... to serenade her. To give you some sense of how middle of everything

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... ! [Class groans.] Come on, what else is there to do in bed?" 9.04, Neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... Monday's off-day to go see Dr. Glen Fleisig and the staff at ASMI in ... practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  to ask yourself what your community is, and how you fit in it. When ... ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... I were lost in Addis Ababa. You’ve probably already guessed that I get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -learned lessons in mind, if not in heart. Maybe the only way to learn how to live is ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston ... for the equivalent of 6.5 standard classes, in addition to singing in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  came to my hometown, but just happened to be in Boston during one of my ... call two places home and I have many different people to call when I get ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all ... studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... lucky to have had her in my life, and I know how much joy she brought ... to play shogi and how to tend to his garden, and he took me all over

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... , though the theory is known as the Big Bang. What we are supposed to keep in ... illusion. I would like to find an astronomer to talk to. I think how people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... of C. elegans, works in the lab right next to my UROP with the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbdUPKD8ek"]revelation;[/annotation]I came in stressed out to all hell about ... far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... right for you. In particular, don't feel pressured to go to tons of events

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  to Pecker.       This is what I come home to in the evening. I get to ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which ... this year.   In Loop lounge, Bruna M. ‘15 and Alan ‘14 were trying to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... restaurant and even after when we were just getting some ice cream, because ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six ... they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... walked into class and sat in my usual chair, and thought about how a young ... -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to ... to be willing to participate; if you engage yourself in the vibrant ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007