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• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside... The sky was overcast, but I spy with my little eyes...OCEAN. And then ... teachers gathered with the program coordinators and Korean teaching

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History Robert Fogelson, and Foreign Languages professor Margery Resnick. It's cool ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  of the Civil Rights movement, the close of World War II, and the state ... post, but something about letter formats feel the most honest and the ... not acknowledge how stressful, overwhelming, and difficult the world has

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  an “Institute of Technology.” A semester and a half later, I can say I ... the balance between being an artist and a student at an “Institute of ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly ... about something, in the shower or while walking home from school, and then ... fragments and bits of rhyme and little sketches of silly little science

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who ... ). Stephen, though, had some unkind words about MIT, and moreover didn't seem

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... and things, with small instructions and reminders and smiley faces. And ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to ... are the Institute's best ambassadors. Admissions officers can explain complicated processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... weirdos and nerds; it’s no longer uncool. I joined anything and everything and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And while CPW will probably indeed fill you with a sense of warmth and the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of Building 7. And when you register for classes, you speak of taking 3.091, 8.01, 18.01, and 21W.784. Tell someone you're taking "Physics 1," and they

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  outside, and to my horror, it was sunny. Worse, it was warm. Twenty degrees ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and ... . '10, and I am indeed an MIT student. (Eight months after receiving the ... , where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Sam and Mitra had graduated - we've extended the same offer to Snively ... over the last week reading blogs, blogs, and more blogs. No exaggeration ... , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of

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

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... , shake it off, and get back up again. Remember that you will survive — and ... you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer ... , inappropriately timed humor, and meme pictures. There will ultimately be a binary outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  purchased tickets for us in advance and offered them at half the cost. Many ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007