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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT ... over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  the stars over our heads and the dome at the back of our peripheries, we ... blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three ... the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  fantastic thing to be a part of. While scrounging for housing at the beginning ... , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... at his desk, looking at all of the MIT classes, waiting for one that ... for 💫reasons💫 held it at the Museum of Science instead. Someone on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year ... . 18th, Mira Loma, Sacramento session." Aha, oops. You can RSVP at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on ... now. i am doing better now, right? and at the time it was fine, but the ... , good job at disappearing two weeks before my appointments and then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit ... . If you still need help after that, feel free to email us at ... help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  : Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West Michigan, which gets some of the most snow in the US, right? Our standards ... main thoroughfare this morning when I woke up at 7:30: I am seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks, has a new turf speed and agility section, and a bunch of other fun

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of ... of finishing all my requirements at the last minute like that has been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my ... different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... spending a year at Cambridge taking amazing classes that didn't fulfill

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  will love it. At this point, I am really scared of technology. It ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time ... a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  parts - Sometimes more powerful The Cons: - Not mobile - A lot of equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do most tasks of a desktop The Cons: - A little more expensive than

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  grabbing fistfuls of it, throwing it at my sibling and giggling as I ran away ... at MIT always brings a smile to my face. It’s a small modicum of life ... ’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025