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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  visual feats. Not to mention their inventions can be applied to medicine and other areas...nerds? “ Because I work at MIT and I have come to ... across the yard and yell really loudly. "I am not a lesbian!" I wiped the

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  feels left out. "We need every member of MIT to feel welcome, not just ... go from there not being much of a [queer women's] community two years ... G@MIT's vice president, on her work on queer women's issues on campus

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  't affect the camera at all - it still works perfectly, and no pictures were ... ended up not dyeing my hair...) to many more events that I wish I had attended. There was simply not enough time, just as there was simply not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... too so may not be able to respond right away. After a couple of days, it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... . I'm warning you now. With this in mind (the world, not parenthetical ... (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... Night. When they aren't at these events, the kids are hard at work on ... squirrels, they're almost as vicious as the chipmunks). These include not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of ... "responsibility" transition. I'm not saying that I came to MIT as an irresponsible

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  about my family...), but on top of an MIT courseload, I'm not sure how this is going to work out. Here's how the schedule goes right now ... start. - MedLinks, which I just applied and was accepted to, so I'm not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  're a concert pianist working on her third novel. (They'll never know ... 're number 40. "33," the lady calls. Well, that's not...so bad. "35. 36. 38." Progress! "37." No. No. Not BACKWARDS. "34." WRONG DIRECTION. You head closer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a ... actually recognized it). Here's the passage: "This is not a land for gods," said the buffalo man. But it was not the buffalo man talking anymore

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a ... five zillion interviews I did this winter. Famous scientists are not ... traditional-but-not. So now you should definitely come visit me when you get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  ... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's programs in those areas and would MIT not be the right place for me if I decide to not major in science? As for applying to law school - they should ... Initiative. I've had friends who through this program worked on the Three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  dropping an atomic bomb on Falluja. Sadly, I'm not making this up). It ... does the reading process work, you ask? I'll take the folders one at a ... applications. For the most part, we do not read applications in our office. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  ran cross country from something like 2nd-6th grade, so this was not my ... /athletic hype playlists because it is a BANGER. Other than that, though, I did not ... my lungs and not a singular one of the runs I did there were enjoyable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  clear from the fact that I go to MIT, I'm not normal. I'm working on it ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... was a quiet kid. Not because I was shy, but because I didn't really have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  motivation to work out but not the motivation to walk 3 minutes to the Z Center ... :00AM if your heart desires. 3 Not-the-Best Parts of living in Maseeh 1 ... why not. There’s food, water, entertainment, and places to study, so I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is ... abandoned Boylston subway tunnel. What I was not expecting was a carbon copy ... the infinite (if not all, I'm not sure) lead to the tunnels. It's the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... ’s incline... My foot was not the only thing there. I had not put anything ... desperation of a failed killer. The cockroach would not come out. I shone a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  sleep failed. 9:33 AM: Facebook. 9:43 AM: Facebook apparently not ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody ... -250 are actually not that shade of fun purple). 10:58 AM: Return to room

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006