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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e ... is at work and how excited she gets. The standard deviation, however

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only ... be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found ... to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... ’s and sweats became the new fashion. I’ve done research as a freshmen, a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in ... eighteen, but really more of a prelude to twenty. A pause and a period of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... except (a) the parents are real (and well-acted) characters and therefore ... Hunt started today and that guy was rarin' to go. Can't wait to see him

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... reading this know which classroom this is?). I love that the chalkboard isn ... winning the Nobel Prize is that his thesis advisor when he was an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and ... haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  learned this weekend is like this stunt, except that the flyer does a back ... ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... upcoming weekend is a 4-day student holiday in honor of Columbus Day and the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  ". This form tells us that you have conducted the interview and we know to ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to ... to call, basically all we could do is tell you that MyMIT is up-to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  : Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a ... Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had ... ) Today, the requirement is half that much. After leaving Lawrence, we ... friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  image is several stories tall.) He also chose to reveal himself in the ... , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim ... decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  ). This year I learned that rivers can freeze and that molasses is a deadly ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... means being vulnerable and admitting that you’re failing a little… and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full ... design basics and some machining, and has one semester to build a ... entry is done, and now it's time to go to class. Adios!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus that slight awkwardness factor. Sam and I got around that by evolving the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  and assignments, I was baffled by the fact that I was ever able to learn ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the first time, and found that I really enjoyed it. Being able to ... morning, of the cold, sunny walks to and from the bus stop, and of the ... ’ve been here both for only a week and for years. On the last day of classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep ... in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... Dunkins. ~and~ (5) I had a blast at Culture Show 2011 :) C-Show is an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011