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• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... in this picture might be wearing sweats.) (Why yes, that would be live Mario Kart in the halls of Burton Conner, and why yes, that would be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  created an organization that would not only serve as a voice for women in an ... I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some ... community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  , perhaps I would have felt the same way. I've written before about how the ... name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  I normally [annotation note="spoilers!"]start off all my information sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... after learning about it from my friends, I thought it would have been a ... lowest officer rank, instead of enlisting--in other words, you would be in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  't, however, what I would call 'pretty uneventful.' Before I begin my little ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  buy fome-cor this weekend. Not complaining…yet. I really hope ... -squares! The knife with which I will do much damage. :P Sam '12, revelling in ... paper, refill lead, glue, wood, drafting dots… Wooooooo – I arrived at my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  with something. How about that. I'll probably major in Urban Planning ... (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember ... . I'm warning you now. With this in mind (the world, not parenthetical

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your ... circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... was very wholesome. I thought it would be like some rampant, chaotic ... come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... since I have penchant for the color red anyway (maybe gold would have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... issues, but that we would land in 7-8 minutes. He didn't actually tell us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... .e. to do what I'm doing [annotation note="So how am I able to write this ... sure how that works, but I'm just grateful it's working."]right now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... would at how organized and choreographed their routines were. The ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005