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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... became cat happy, I headed back upstairs, this time for a different visit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... /do at school. I try hard as an EC to be a strong advocate for each person ... for me. Although I'd like to ask you to come with a few things to talk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... , Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a ... I was in college, I took a job working for Apple as a Campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  would trade a lot of my As for a lot more steak and lobster dinners during ... xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  held a formal for us back in november"]Twenty Fourmal[/annotation] and ... The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a ... 's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a ... whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... , for special occasions), ponytail (tied back, for safety's sake), and a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV53qvfM3Xw For the completionists, a two-hour long interview with Woodie

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  temporary exhibits.     ...letter-pressed, I signed up for a 4 ... Fahrenheit was cold). I also volunteered at a Bruins game selling tickets for ... back to Zürich I went. I signed up for a two-day Schnupperlehre (aka

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . Now, machines can perform calculus operations for us, but it takes a ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A/CMS and now writes for SciShow. Mostly Ceri works behind the scenes, writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  and can’t get up… “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken ... filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day ... post I could come up with. Credit where credit's due, the idea for this ... Admitted Student Gathering with a nonexistent limited edition 1930 brass rat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  be a GEL2 next year, so if you apply for this year, you might get me as ... Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... the MIT Public Service Center. If you're looking for a job, definitely ... telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  you a secret because I have that much love for you all - I was really ... wait to film a blog video with these suckers... So that's all for now ... Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego, I discovered Rebecca Black (and am forever scarred) and I received a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  pronto) and I found a video of me at the beginning of last year that I never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006