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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  lot more food. Sophomore year seems about as good a time as any for a ... filter before I left for California and just drank half a cup of moldy ... myself for saying this when I have a kid later on, and have to make all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey, do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  for one hour per day. Depending on the semester, there is usually a 9 AM ... here for 3 months, because the environment at home--living in a dorm with ... DID YOU KNOW? There is a free-food at mit dot edu mailing list, just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  to view a closeup, and for the uninitiated, here's some history on ... am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... , it was like playing a video game - lots of exploring and getting lost

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and ... here for anything in the world.Favorite things about Boston: The Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates ... Today's tie: blue/gray/slate-colored. I worked with Amy and a student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  heckled and yelled by visiting tourists for wearing a shirt they disagree ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  to a project that preserves some of that energy for this year's ad ... Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... roughly fifteenth grade. A lot has changed, but some things remain the same

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  think for a while I tried to fight the feeling of ordinariness and overcompensate with a sort of dramatic over-enthusiasm for everything, directing my ... .042 (Math for Computer Science) is kind of bleh. I still care a lot about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  , with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing ... ="1000"] “Kelly starts with the calendar… and uses it as a framework for ... limits of the ways history is told and uses re-enactment as a vehicle for

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion ... for tickets. Olivia was a teenage wunderkind who had somehow managed to ... 'd resold it for: over ten times what she had paid for it. That . . . was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a ... 've gotten to do through MIT. For example last semester, I took 2.008 (a Design ... , then sleep for a million hours. But here at Cambridge, everyone

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  electricity at home, and as such can only use it for a limited time after school ... Marvin and Darryl off for two hours while the rest of us went to a ... have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... year, they go something like this: We know you lead a busy life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES ... jumble of sounds that only I would have any reason for using or even dare

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010