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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was ... events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a ... , working on a project that [annotation note="this was a relief to me; I am

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... that rose up within me was enough to make me giddy for a whole day ... giving santa vibes but we love it!![/caption] A few weeks later, I went to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... , Pluto was a planet). I've also tried to include some entries to help you out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a ... lost a finger due to some unfortunate chopping accident and ended up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... 're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... had a freshman backpack.) I try to let that roll off my shoulders ... dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  things. I present to you as a case study the company LiveScribe. So this past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  like to brag about our debt, but this was our secret strategy: buy a huge ... above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan ... . Aside from the cabrito, I didn't really get a chance to have some ... because I'm in a spaghetti-type junction, so it starts going crazy trying to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  due on Thursday and so was ready to take a breather and relax. But then ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather ... and hopped on a train back so we could switch to Amtrak (Map below

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster ... only there were a way to show you the humble beginnings of the 'net

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... a long time to cook and turned out sort of bland, so I decided that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I ... history, with a supplemental education in how to pay bills, how to split ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  – as a moment of special significance, as do their descendants to this ... .mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit https ... to a learned expert such as myself. More's the pity, but ah well! The

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... of a creative-imagery let-down? To be specific, the car was nearly the ... . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010