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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  process. I think my favorite is the private jet/financial aid story from ... , grabbed the student guide, and tossed her into the trunk. A fifth young man ... , who recently graduated from Irvington High School, in Irvington, N

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... classmates had learned and done. I’m still intimidated sometimes, now, but I’m also realizing something else -- two something elses, which I think maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  sometime during high school, but in 9th grade, I was still intent on ... th grade. I got an A on the paper. Therefore, Kip helped me pass high ... salmon burger. Finally, the night ended when I brusquely handed my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  ended, they took a bunch of the frosh out for their first visit, and i ... quiet. It was also very windy, and I'd [annotation note="i ended finding ... ended my throat was raw and I felt my teeth buzzing from the vibrations of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... conversation of otherwise forgettable nature, by which I mean that I completely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  out as I expected. It was not harmless. It ended with the man exposed ... sno-ball from a stand nearby. I stood in line. A man got in line behind ... ’s a small town, and I make a habit of talking to strangers. An older man

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  straight. I am an old man now. There are undergrads working in my lab, and I ... ? But what makes this old man think of school today? Well, I've been ... movie adaption, this week. As an old man, thinking of school, I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  There are many like it, but this one is mine. My spork has been high into the mountains, across desert islands, into Stata Cafe, and ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  've been to is on Plum Island (the website I linked, by the way, is ... P.S. Today's toothpaste for dinner is highly relevant. P.P.S. Oh no, I ... (Yeah yeah, right now it's Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  Island. However, it is only the 4th-smallest European country. Wikipedia ... . It actually looks beautiful, and I might have to check out Vaduz or something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  territory of Jean-Georges' seasonal lunch menu is closer to high-end bathroom ... . With a tip of the proverbial hat to French decadence, I ordered a dessert ... ended- far and away the best meal I have ever had at any restaurant. Two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  the end, I decided I would get to Italy later than Kano and only see ... you ever go on a hostel-centered trip, I highly recommend only having a ... Italian pizza, accompanied with a beer and viewing of football. I ended my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... Artificial Gravity at the Man-Vehicle Laboratory. Back then, I still wanted to ... check at the end of September I got a 60/100. But I learned. By the next I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  end of dorm row. Everyone I know from Next is Asian, but that's not ... years ago I received my temporary housing assignment (Simmons), and since being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  included. Hour 8 In Utica, a man with a silver beard and a snazzy top hat boards the train. I’m very charmed by his hat. I want one like it. Then I ... (!!) and head over to check it out. I end up sitting next to a veteran who

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in ... location, they contemplated many options, including an island in the Charles ... an island in the middle of it,” says Karl Haglund PhD ’97, author of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016