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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  ’s advantages and benefits. I half expected the next pamphlet to offer me free shipping and handling if I called right away. Maybe I had a little bit more ... opportunities”. As decision time approaches, many of you are probably facing the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  head down to the North End, where I met them at Mike's Pastry. Probably ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the ... ground where three lines intersect. You want to stand at this point and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are ... students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... one's admissions decision public or not should ONLY ever be made by that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  guys come out for the parades: That's a pirate ship in downtown ... boats are on the land, who's claiming the water? ...floating houses ... underneath them are moving. And even if the buses are nearly silent (being

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  shipped overseas to use as guides for the final toys. Here are some of the ones that are currently for sale that I built. So that's where ... Plushies for us, free of charge! This was some of the most exciting news we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  seminars are made of up of 8 other freshman who live in your dorm, and you ... I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... are sun and community, conveyed by the dorm's colorful living spaces

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  to which these products are made or obtained are unknown, we can say ... the mid-1900s. Its members are sometimes found in the depths of the Charles River, where they occasionally crawl onto land and chip logs down

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  where startups were showcasing their products! There was a free open bar ... -focused startups are growing in Cambridge. free snack count: 2 Wednesday 9 ... Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A ... provost, an MIT alum, and some of them are planning on continuing the ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  the last years, I'm embarking on a multi-part project called "Where are you going, where have you been" named after a rather creepy (but ... . Seeing as how I have two weeks of free time between now and graduation, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

    Allan: These are the little notebooks that literally organize ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... this is mainly because assignments are pretty repetitive and after I get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  products. Basically, my grad student Andy and I are building a reactor and ... hardcore organic synthesis to building a giant cardboard box in which to ship ... was intentional. This week Andy and I are just doing a residence time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  . i was either in a powerful enough place where i could slip into that room where the decisions were made, but more often than not, waiting ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in

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

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  represent a place where there are not many others to do it for me. We’ve got ... live where we live? What does it mean to live? Alan: Henry's answer made ... -Conner where I just happened to mention being from South Dakota

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  Japanese Starbucks!!! 2. Americans are so protective of their "personal space ... (because of the crow-like black clothing - suits). 8. The Japanese are pros ... ,"　(鯉の恋） anyone? 12. Subway signs are misleading. When they say "transfer is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  brother, Ryan (who insists on being called a pre-teen). There are very few things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... again, my brother owns me... at my own job. So here are some pictures

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  progression of, where humans are going. As we become more advanced and we have ... . And then I was commissioned in the Navy, and I did underwater ship repair and ship repair and some salvage work. That was kind of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  announced intentions to ship a cellular-enabled iPad and Apple Pencil to every ... who made this, but thank you, and thank you to my friend Eren for ... , I'm not one to turn down free stuff. So, it was a no-brainer -- I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  but I feel like this kind of pushed it over the edge to where kids are ... sight either Even my cat looking at me like "yo what are you still DOING ... should all be free to snack in public and on camera across the interwebs

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020