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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  [/caption] Suddenly, the end date for my stay was years away instead of days or weeks ... single moment when I regretted coming to MIT or wished I’d chosen a ... sort of comfort. Because those times likely will come—especially if you

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but ... guaranteed graduation or even just the ability to gather with friends, the sense of good-bye just isn’t there. Or maybe it is and I’m just having

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , faculty and staff will lead us in prayer and reflection. The speakers at the ... note="Made by Rev; if you notice anything wrong or off, please drop me an email so I can fix."]read the transcript[/annotation] and/or the coverage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... 't listen to all of them them or censor anything, so y'know, use your judgment before blasting it while babysitting or whatever."]variety of songs here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  clipboards that are definitely over capacity. Some of those resumes will yield a coveted internship, job, or career. There’s SpaceX, 3M, Capital One ... with catchy slogans like “Dreamers welcome” or “Wanted: insatiable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... was one week where three or four times, I showed up seconds after my bus ... wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  : the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... admits from Texas; I more or less got my wish, with a few Mainers thrown in ... admirably ambitious - it was a pleasure to meet you :) The RA telethon will

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 ... complaining on my end. IAP (or also known as January Term in some other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT ... commences during the third-plus-or-minus-epsilonth week of term, you don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  the photos, and that she asked them, "Er, what's with the smoke?" or ... their laptops or on chairs. I'm guessing those were the ones who pulled all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  where viewers choose which of three new science programs will get picked ... or on your iPod. Aomawa was Course 12 (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, or EAPS) and was a member of the a cappella group the Muses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Arts presents: Comic strips of Belgium or the big success of a small ... or the big success of a small country La bande dessinee belge ou ce qui ... for this small country! Willem De Graeve will discuss the history of

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  --the professor doesn't even have to know, so he or she will just give you a B or a C or whatever and it still comes out on your report card as that most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  way to make friends; now I might have been a shy person, but with or ... degree, this has to be a decision your son or daughter has to make on their own. Nothing crazy is going to happen to your son or daughter, and no

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  There are two or three backlogged entries that I want/need to write ... next few days, I will have another entry up. With photographs. I even ... relate to the material. I'd rather learn about proteins or metabolic

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  teacher) or pediatrician or physicist or psychologist." Perhaps at age 21 I ... a senior in a very short period of time. Given that this means I will

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  World Tour per se, but I will be hitting the metropolitan New York City ... 's experiences with, say, the Solar Car Team or D-Lab. After work, I caught up ... Planning students going to Venice or Barcelona or... yes, the list goes on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  glasses or his glass of water. And then it evolved into things from a couple ... obsessed with optimization of graph colorings or exploring the edges of space or fixating on economics in the like, I was angry that they weren

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  old brownstone beautiful for another century! Or at least for the next ... Ξp work bench[/caption] Method 1: Be lucky Time taken: 10 seconds Power ... extracts screw #1. Method 2: Dremel a flathead slot Time taken: 40 minutes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  ! Figure 1. Logo of The French Dormitory, my food Instagram. Courtesy of ... that we all love, or at least I do. Fun question: can you guess which ... , hopefully with more fantastic dishes and more finesse to share! Appendix 1. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021