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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... especially at MIT, there's an urge to see a social problem and want to build an ... the humanities, arts, and social sciences. I'm really glad I go to a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy ... with a free sticker that said "HUG ME, I DONATED BLOOD TODAY" stuck to my ... , guys, I joined a cult. I really didn't mean to; I guess that's what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... F/A-18s overhead to the percussive expression of a man in a pug mask ... newspaper racks have recommendations on which newspapers to pick up: Wait a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... asked Professor Housman to talk a little about his career and the things ... all "oh, I've been fortunate to work on a few diseases and discover some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... online that go into the 10k region. Also, once my roommate managed to get a ... a dying run, and timing boosts to enter logs is an essential skill to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... Aphrodite and Ares descended to the people to end their war. I think it was a ... , not a sprint. I don't have to run the same pace as the guys in the front

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... Biden [annotation note="a reference to a tiktok"]is it bones day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... Intensive). A side note: you're actually required to take a CI class during ... exams. In a word, sophomore standing isn't very difficult to get, if that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... draw of this city is to find different ways to spend a lot of money

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  already, but wanted to inquire a bit about the pre-law track. From what I ... wrote: Whether or not MIT prepares you to be a lawyer probably depends on ... which you're dealing. If it's what you want to do, MIT can give you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... asked my friend in NYC to go into my room and drop off the passport at a ... countries in seven days. As such, there was a lot of coordination that had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  -changing realization that they’re a terrible person, decides to change, and suddenly ... due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... feels like a time loop if you let it. Sure, it’s satisfying to finish your

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025