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• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and ... (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  when he was in it. It was funny to everyone but Mark, who sounded like a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

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

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

  

  - "MassTech" In a [deleted] gone awry by students who rewrote ... students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  character in the picture is a modification of the 'Masked Rider' who was popular in a early 90's anime show. If you would like more information about ... @mit.edu. They're your best bet. Alex wrote, "In your opinion, is a 780 Math Level

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  arrive at a conclusion is one of the best skills you can have. In what ... basically a crash course in being a leader in the engineering workplace over a ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , craving to do something, having nothing satisfying. A dullness in the in ... days in the future. Navy polos, ugly khakis, eight-plus hours on a ... is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It is a privileged path I should

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  someone, somewhere, out there, who is better. Chesterton, as in "Chesterton's fence" Chesterton, once wrote that If a thing is worth doing, it is worth ... first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup ... 's are mini-computers too. Only difference is that this is a 128GB SSD, 8GB ... .   GeoOrbital, a startup grown right in Boston, lets you replace the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... : Drawing and using CAD Sketching is a crucial part of product design. There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  notice that Cyclops is kind of a total tool in X2? I really liked it when ... DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... in between. You learn a lot of these things through trial and error

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... a particular place. In the end, though, they let me choose the best

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... lately is that MIT is a competitive and cutthroat place, and that ... , is a confusion not supported by my friends Merriam and Webster). Sure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  than the usual complement in any given limb. [this is a villain, by the ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  in business. a disconnect of sorts? Anika the blogger is kind of a ... major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... drawing properly using a trackpad. Anyways, art is very very critical to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in ... because this is what happens when my mom tries to take a picture of me. Mom

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010