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• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is ... 're also required to pass a swim test, which I have heretofore been too lazy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at ... people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, Pedersen decided to start his career ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I ... will probably take a little longer than Pangea did to separate. Whether ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a ... my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college ... applicant admitted takes a space which could have gone to another student ... of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... California the day before his new job and swallowed a bee that proceeded to sting him. He then had to meet all his co-workers with a busted lip and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  , January 21, 2011 was definitely a GREAT day to start a weekend adventure. I ... :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come ... assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my ... and organizing data to send to Andy in Switzerland so he can keep

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

  I Wrote A Thing media and articles and no punctuation

  

  I wrote a thing It is an article about hospitalizations In ... article I also was in a Boston Globe article about stress There is a ... stressful? We tried to answer those questions Things have been really

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  . To be considered for a blogger position, you must email it to me (chris ... people who can communicate in a compelling fashion to our large and active ... . Send us some of your writing. It could be a link to (or select entries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... Gainsbourg, Melancholia opens up to a surreal, slow motion introductory sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... wireless and free Photoshop to bring you a blog entry about another set of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... really feeling like I have a grasp on the material to feeling like the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017