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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... easy, in that order Record for number of grapes held in mouth at one time ... feel like I'm at Disneyland Song used as the opening credits of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... of admission at top colleges. The emergence of the "national student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  studying this or at least one. The Massachusetts Institute of Tea: This one ... : Law school. The Massachusetts Institute of Teenagers: A new pilot ... -Profit Universities. The Massachusetts Institute of Tribology: I don't know much about

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed with the [annotation note="University

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  currently over 1000 axolotls in captivity at the University of Kentucky ... enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most ... well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  Securing the right venue is crucial. Because most of the students at CPW ... the MIT community. But with dozens of performance groups at MIT, it’s a ... miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor ... funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... friends have been to even the UK (of all non-exotic places, at least from ... I'msoincrediblyexcitedyouhavenoidea! So basically, after 21 years of living on either the same street in New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... building needed to pass a "tilt test" with a water bottle at the top of it to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  . We met at a local café within walking distance of campus and my home in ... of the Paige Universe (or Pagi-nation, as she prefers to call it): math ... of what I’ve missed. Like my favorite coffee shop hiring new baristas

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  local coffee shop while others gag at the smell of coffee. Pretty sure you ... sit at a desk in a library with a stick of gum to keep me awake but no ... unfiltered. c. Staring at the ceiling – I do some of my best thinking while

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  yellows and oranges, MIT has shed the appearance of normal university and ... is new technology, if we want an example of what's truly possible we ... 'm more afraid of goats. (Seriously, goats freak me out. Look at their eyes

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  popular interest in the Higgs. A couple of weeks before, the New York Times ... some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... accelerator, where tiny bits of matter smash into each other at terrifying

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... it's the best-valued hostel that we stayed at in the course of our 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  ", and if someone really presses, even a little bit "New York". Well, as an ... of bed at 4am, kicked my roommate's snoring friend, and stood on the ... taken at the top of the waterfall: The telescope was set up at Glacier

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  elucidate why such great effort is put into emphasizing the presence of a new ... of this metaphor. Perhaps it is an acknowledgement that life at MIT is ... first chance for the fencing sophomores to show off their new rings at a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... be a slippery slope. We have to protect the integrity of the program at ... .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  . New bloggers will also spend at least 3 hours a week "in residence ... -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016