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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at “the Holiday Inn University”. She also has 25 fiction books checked out ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... alone someone who is basically in charge of protecting the health of our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream school was Columbia University (sorry, MIT) because it was in the Big Apple. I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  universe [annotation note="IN 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 HOUSE 👏🏻 WE 👏🏻 DO 👏🏻 NOT ... shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  other colleges and universities in voter participation with only about 38 ... Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  when they tackle the prestigious university this fall. No other school in ... in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads, our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in ... ="the sixth option is offered as an abstention"]five[/annotation] bloglets that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  affected. We are working closely with them to offer every support we can. We ... seven countries to the US through Logan Airport. This order is in effect ... countries and are not already in touch with us, please reach out. You can

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... psets sound fun", and "won bronze medal in third grade spelling bee

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience. Local Admitted ... in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... : 7.05 - General Biochemistry - In the last two classes, we learned that ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the ... significance of certain passages, but she is never impatient with us - in fact, she simply probes deeper in her questions and gets us to think like a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010