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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ...  flickered back on, and I happened to find myself looking down the lecture hall at Wolfgang Ketterle, who works in the Center for Ultracold Atoms and won the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  whether he won or not (believe me, he preferred to win). The key is to look ... is an opportunity for you to talk about your involvement in the things ... . For now, just relax and enjoy the rest of your summer. And get into that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist ... talk it out. For right now, we just ask that you have a little patience

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... fun running up and down hills and looking for grammatical mistakes on ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Without the people and the place that have become a home for me. Well there ... -ness. #1: Are you looking at me? #2: Everybody just calm down #3: The one ... When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  food truck at 77 Mass Ave (looks a little greasy for me), the food court ... , and let the whole thing simmer for two hours. It turned out alright and ... the quote of the evening, for me at least, came when Andreas from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  looking at the stars -- small and yet enormous, alone and yet so comfortably ... on the way to the study space, and those shelves do look interesting ... original draft for this post, I had given Dewey four stars because of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . That's a topic for another day, though; as promised, here's the follow-up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we ... cannot stomach steep drops so I had close my eyes for most of them, but the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  , this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next ... ramen and the occasional pasta. (I'm actually really ashamed.)  For the ... steps. And then I took a bigger step, and bought meat for the first

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  ready for a while. The best I can do is to direct you to this clip from a ... think this is pretty typical quality for MIT choral ensembles. Most of the ... clips of an original piece that was commissioned for the MIT Chamber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... guidance, and guidance you’ll receive. Hope: A Guide for the Hopeless and ... to be applying to MIT, for you will not be judged entirely by the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  're looking for an easy time, you wouldn't be coming to MIT. Oh, and THE ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of ... yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  . I especially like the French Waldo. Off to the Stata Center for more ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality ... to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... Stata Center. As for the building, some love it, some hate it, but nobody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  . It's one of my favorite things ever. For more, watch the below MITnews ... should also look at Andrea Silverman '05's photo essay on the Glass Lab ... that Cory gave me for Halloween the year before (so two years ago

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  the year. What is something you’re looking forward to for the rest of ... main thing I’m looking forward to for the remainder of the season is ... years old. For almost all of those years, I’ve played on the defensive

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025