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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at ... . Should be a pretty good semester. I’m going to try to keep myself not too

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the ... because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... , because it's cheaper and healthier... also, I live in a dorm with no dining

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  me a lot about what qualities I liked and disliked having in my social ... This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... a second semester senior in high school. What on earth do you guys ... ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very ... .   [annotation note="this is what we in the business call a call to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a conversation she said, “… when I was in high school…” and continued talking for a ... a big sign. And this is what we get on the GroupMe at 2:31, when we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  what's out there. In that spirit, here are some deadline for some programs that MIT applicants are often interested in: Gates Millennium ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  in engineering) (a la yan z. - integration bee) (you also should ... can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  ... they're just cats. I'd never had a pet before, so I was completely clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in ... I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... . Take a look at climbs 9 and 13, for example. For some reason I still don

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... every email, meaning that I now have a compilation of all these important

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  life... at least, until next Thursday. Oh, next Thursday. What am I doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  because I was in the back row, but here is a pretty good picture of the top ... more interesting and also because I don't remember exactly what was said, I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  weekend for van rentals so sign up early and reserve a space! Sam I ... interested in studying more macrobiological things (so this gives a taste-ish of field work), had a really good friend who graduated in Course 12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... (six people in all four years, last time I checked). This is great on one ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... . 7. Make eye contact! 8. Before starting a conversation, know whether ... held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... got it at Bed Bath & Beyond. (This is actually a tradition -- I've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  tortuous sense of "best" and "imaginable." To show what I mean by example ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011