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• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... , where Crucial Admissions Business is voted upon. I also learned a bit more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow ... participating in a pre-orientation program. I did the Freshman Leadership Program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... headed off to Urgent Care, where - at this point, I was pretty woozy, but I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... , especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... trenches in it. That's OSG, a place where the barriers behind which you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... bit too attractive!" (Darn right.) "Is (girl's name I can't quite ... no poet. In fact, I am a very poor poet. I would never be sharing any

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted ... video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only ... do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  and walking, I traveled through God-knows-where in Cambridge and Boston ... river, my favorite part of Boston. These are the trees I can see from my ... . More leaves spotted in a park along the river. I'd already seen some

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  the midterm. alksjdfiwejkndfv. I can’t even think straight anymore. My ... strategy. And it works! I can’t algebra, that’s why. Oops. 18:50: Walk thru ... --walking thru the Infinite today has been so exciting! 18:51: I spy free food in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... . For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... movies I suppose... But I found something SOOO much cooler that I can do while I work in my room! XD It's called - OWL CITY!!! I have Fireflies and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  . It's the grad student run pub in Walker Memorial, which means I can ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... of them out :) The Painted Burro - This was where I went with my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some caves, and got a few diamonds. diamonds! i won—and that’s where the story ... , playing minecraft in utter secret while my mom wasn't looking. i walked and

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... auditorium...and, well, you see where it's going. Now it's 6:55, and I ... small." 7:24 - I find the speech Neil's reading - where else? - on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've done some pretty stupid things in lab. Case in point: I've cracked ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms and pick the place where you fit in best with the culture and residents ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  on display. I definitely had a few moments where I briefly thought I ... day. I can't remember for the life of me if this painting was by ... off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... -year-old-brother) likes to come up here is to play in the Simmons Hall ball pit: (I’ll take what I can get.) Additionally, every once in a while it’s nice to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010