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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it deep in your bones. You don't choose the Suit. The Suit chooses you. 2

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving ... that come and go but are united in their values, and so on. I know that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... I would be happy to teach him the basics, sometime, and gave his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... trouble, and cheer a lot at races. I don’t even know how I became captain. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... hurricane in Boston since I've been here, other than the remnants which come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  Form, an “RSVP form.” I call Mu Lan telling them that the number would be ... learned about things I never would’ve originally: MIT’s AI Ventures class ... ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... earlier in the week. I never would have called an Excel file beautiful ... summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... sneakers snap and no umbrella or plastic bag! How ever would you go back to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  MATH CLASS HOW WILL I EVER END UP GRADUATING AND FORGET THE DOUBLE MAJOR ... holding dinner parties for my friends in the box I call home! With the knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... out as bad as Andi did, but I was flopping around quite a bit in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025