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• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... . I was lucky enough to be assigned to my first choice advising seminar

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... an essay. But I have heard that MIT doesn't like to recieve extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... and then since i think it's healthy to share latest fixations, so i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  admissions process. I’ve had the opportunity to visit Baltimore, New Haven, New ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... able to respond. Better late than never, no? Background Info: As you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Christina wasn't serious, because she goes to MIT and is one hot piece, but other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... like 8-6), and when I got off work I’d walk to the climbing gym or the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... agendas is because I like to very excessively cross out tasks as soon as

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows ... friends introduced us to Justin Lafazan, founder of Next Gen Summit, over

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s public art collection. This week, we went to the MIT List Visual Arts Center to see Otto Piene’s Litchballett and the Hans Haacke 1967

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011