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• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with freshman orientation quickly approaching, that time of year is upon us! As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... thinking.   It was in the process of doing so that I discovered my true

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... something that would grace the presence of Arthur Ganson! (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively: Greetings all! As ... of joy, we are trying to help his older sister (McKinley "Drama Queen ... tantrums that have become her hallmark of late, I'm sure that we could win as

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... 9.15 (Biochemistry/Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission), a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I ... groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... [annotation note="no shit"]"blog[/annotation] intended to provide coverage of an

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders ... dinners six nights a week, as well as plenty of snacks. [caption id ... of social events, like mixers with other living groups and an annual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... ’ve grown a quarter of an inch in a week. (Or, like, some unmeasurable non ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • May 31, 2021