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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I ... favorite parts of the job. If you have ever been to one of my sessions you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too ... be easy to fall back on the sweet embrace of instant ramen, easy mac, and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... probably assuages the pain of full-body checking, which might be one reason ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  insane amount of activities happening regularly, the short answer is yes ... Mikey, our director of selection, who has experienced the same doubts ... can afford MIT. We know that the cost of MIT factors into most students

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... represent the American Astronomical Society as part of the Congressional Visits D- Man: Okay, the scheduler is currently out of her office, but I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense ... 's become the greatest center of my hopes for my future. Your essays provide great examples--and for students as anxious about the outcome of their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a ... all the pretense of being a real Trinity student and sat down in one of the long, sideways stalls. **Sorry I don't have any pictures of the

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to ... worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of the weather wizard lies. He, the arch-nemesis of our fire dragons, is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town ... sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance ... afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... just collapsed out of exhaustion from the running/heavy box carrying

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... Majorana fermions. That's exciting, since the colloquium a couple of weeks ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... weeks. And now here we are. Welcome to the Thoughts of Taylor

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... too. I won't divide you up into groups; after all, we're all part of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... MIT that I've seen myself with my own two eyes. Of course, the MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it, focusing on both the overall winners and the performances of MIT runners. Now ... front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  , but for the most part, you can just imagine it as a bunch of people ... of my novels growing up. I found that the character sheets really ... in the story. I've watched about three seasons of Dimension 20 so far

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT ... on the Dome 11/10: Fallout 4 Release 11/1: Hogwarts Institute of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015