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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  trick is to add the oil very slowly at first, and to add a bit of cold ... neat and orderly and clean, because a clean workstation is the key to ... putting myself out there and risking my equilibrium? I’d worn the same

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , because the point of the interview is to get a sense of your side that doesn ... was the first I did for my college applications, and there were a few ... you're willing to take that academic risk and not take the path of least

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  will never see the light of day. And this is something that I’m still ... like to create a print or poster of some kind that unique to the admitted ... that came up with shifting to a virtual CPW, the stickers never got made

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  't really have much to offer. I was looking around me and realizing that the ... in me. It is a space of gentleness, optimism, and unfamiliar trust ... self-help genre. There is a stigma around the genre: like many things

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  as above Is there a summer commitment? I feel the need to emphasize ... scholarship and just want to give the program a try, you can do so with no ... -October. I’m happy to say that each time I’ve taken the PFA I’ve gotten a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... too hard to be entertaining. There was a specific style of humor that I ... that I was too busy with problem sets to enjoy Halloween. And all the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  everyone you pass is somehow connected to the university. Umich also has a ... one of the best cities across the US and am always finding a new cafe to ... between your own versions of Umich and MIT. The point I’m trying to make is

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  community. The emails are, to many of us, all that there is to go on. Since ... application [link] to be a member of the community. You will see that we are ... students' wellbeing and to require accountability when the facts of a serious

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  -da. Anyway, triples is where all the action is. There may only be three and a ... if you're a lifeguard. Because then all you do is stand there and ... on the slide and jump in to save two different kids. So that's my job

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  that someone won't open the lid and dump in something unrelated to the ... space to be a problem on 5th East, and I'd say we use the kitchen more ... 's welcome to invite others into a cooking group or something and split the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to go to the [annotation note = "Probably. I mean that leg choke is pretty ... the same class I knocked down a different guy and decided he probably

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  that path there.   this is only a fraction of all of the plaques ... attention to the rest of the panel. Fast forward a bit, that panel influenced ... leading up to the DormCon meeting, and I kept on with the same response. But

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  expected almost everywhere in the country tomorrow, I suspect there will be ... the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... , Saturday Activities Fair, 1-3pm, Saturday CPW Closing Remarks and A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  outbound train and go to the Malden Center T stop. The store is about a mile ... wondering if there is a Carvel ice cream place near MIT... Well, the easy part ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  and other freshmen. 2:20 -- There's a swim test that you MUST pass to ... , etc. The environment is much more relaxed and gives students a chance to ... to find a cure for cancer. MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," Mind and

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

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so ... about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its ... ’s nickname, Abush, who has a way with all the small kids and is always their ... 13 from typhoid fever. He looked up at the sky and there was a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... the world was flat and that you could get to the end and just drop off. June 6th is that edge of the flat, flat world. Or if you're looking for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  there's a dark band between rainbows? Or that the color order is inverted ... /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... , and there weren't any clouds. At 11 PM, we finally got to see the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012