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• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody who is very ... cut out in the middle. The hallways along the edges are lined with big ... are in many cases experienced MIT students. Lucas has been climbing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  your transcript and test scores. You say you're a leader in your school ... , while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few ... ! But it was just a dream. So I guess I’ll check Caucasian” [Q: To you

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

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

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  you have to shoot an m&m in order to make it all the way down the ... catch m&m's in my mouth.) If you want to do the math yourself, we were ... This blog post is about the following picture: In particular

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1 ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more ... . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is awesome. Adelaide and Rick in their dress clothes. Within 3 minutes of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... SEMESTER EVER that I've taken less than 48 units. So what am I taking you ask ... using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... ’ve tried regularly working out at many points in my life, and this summer was ... for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  shovel the sidewalks (that is, if you live in the dorms. As Gwen '08 ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... a couple of construction projects in front of my door, which happens ... it is occasionally a problem. One guy is drilling holes in a glass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... create an MIT-ish atmosphere in another city. For the students who live ... deliver the presentation in Kresge Auditorium. No, your eyes do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... . This, of course, is only one blow in a long and sustained campaign

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as ... been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011