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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  on that tradition. A colleague asked me the other day how I liked ... My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... better than quality. What I ate: After scoping the many different stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  I haven't been as buried as my fellow premed Chris S., '11, who ... assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  CPW 2011! I hope you '15s realize exactly how excited we all are to see ... So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find ... Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI 2015, Maker Faire (NYC) 2014), but I rarely provide advance notice before I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... Adventure Time followed by Bob's Burgers, two shows which I've never seen ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  , but I was heedlessly hungry, and by the time I'd taken something from each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month. Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  really, it's only slightly more work than usual (other weeks, I would have ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I know kids who are taking four classes, but I also know plenty are taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  would have thought I could be envious of a pre-frosh?), because Dr ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take ... everyone at Hogwarts has special abilities, you could say the same for MIT. I've never had a professor I despised as much as Harry despised as Snape, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  back-up into the pump to save some time. Since I thought the driver was potentially a fellow Engineer, I took a snapshot. Though I love driving, I am definitely happy that I will not have to surrender my wallet at any gas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  and energized for 3 hours. (I honestly don't know how people at ... This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes ... , since these courses are all experimental). I took 7.S390, creating Digital

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... 're considering MIT then you should come visit. I realize that depending on where ... , right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  questions such as 'Just how excited are you, really, about airplanes??' and ... entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Literature Favorite things about MIT: I love that the people take their studies ... seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... - Christina's, Toscanini's, JP Licks, Herrell's. How it's such a walkable city

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... each folders are the summary cards (or "E-3 cards," I have no idea why ... will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... ;   As I wrote when we admitted them: These 1419 students are truly ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018