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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... MIT philosophy. Finally, a note on the classic how did I get here story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... stop would take me to another bus that could in turn take me all the way ... five other routes to get to work, and Justas many to get home. Some I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  , someone gets up and talks about how much that senior means to the group ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  . National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... ) Herrell's D) Christina's Boston and Cambridge are home to many other fine ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  . How much effort do you put in trying to stay true to real-world science ... how it went. I didn't get to talk to, touch, or even really see Hayden ... me. And also, I didn't get to pick them - Fox did. Okay, here we go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... why it baffles everyone how you manage to get all your work done on time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• 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 ... 't really know how to do that. MIT has multiple science departments, so you ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  energy; If I had, then I'd have known How much work you'd give to me! I will survive 2.005 Oh, as long as I know how to punt I know I'll stay ... Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... get in. (Or maybe it's really just to contain the diseases found there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 ... agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006