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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I ... opportunities. At first, this sounded simple enough to me, but once I arrived at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  girl named Anjali Thakkar: My first thought when I met her was, "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... those things - and a Truman Scholar as well! I got a chance to interview

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day ... to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left-hand corner. My idea needs 100 votes to make it to the second round, and the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  ; Ashima's first years of marriage in America; the Ganguli's trip to India ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... ) [click on the image to watch ZigZag] If you like ZigZag and would like to get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course ... whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  started work today and had to see the doctor. The first thing she did was ... apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... to have full internet access from work until Tuesday, so don't expet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to ... it to the front page so more people would see it. None of this makes it ... certain folks to stop with the cheap shots, I would really appreciate it. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of ... So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  … Even though he placed first and I placed fifth and logically we both ... abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  the first semester was going to go exactly to plan. i was gonna be a ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  this season (in fact, it's the first undefeated season ever), leading to ... gotta come. My first thought was to let a couple of my friends from high ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  we didn't go to the space needle. First, we went on a duck tour of ... the space needle, the first thing you notice has nothing to do with the ... .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do ... ="The Toast once said 'For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is not enough time to have all the lives I wanted.' and I really felt that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of student MIT was educating was being trained to conceive, design, operate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  , etc. My brothers weren't coming to college with me. For the first time ... these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007