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• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in admissions, I tell them, not inaccurately, that, as someone with an degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need ... up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... Hey! Remember me? No? Hi. I'm Elizabeth. I graduated last June. But

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... .  You make me wonder if I’d be a comic artist in another life

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

   (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I have class from noon to 4, so I usually eat lunch during my documentary class. This day I was feeling particularly preschooler-like when I packed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... and mix in some transitions while trimming off the excess fat. Then I ... before I come back for one last revision. Finally, I add in any icing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There's no way I can ever go. (9) Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to ... "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... have to study. But now, hopefully, I'll resume exercising in MIT ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  -nighter I pulled finishing a problem set I could have easily done in two hours ... student, which I wrote in my first entry here, even though I wasn't really ... (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  incredibly easy to talk to, but after I visited her in her office, several of ... , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... fire extinguisher down the stairwell. I must have misheard that. Even in ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and ... in the class took full advantage of that stipulation, so I made out pretty well. In general, I've done fairly well at humanities classes at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  problem with our mechanical system. After three long (and I mean sleep in ... began, in Omaha, Nebraska. For the 9 day long tour, you can begin with a ... potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up and left. Soymilk, cold and packaged and carried in my backpack, as I ... Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  I like working the night shifts at the Burton-Conner front desk because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing ... I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Happy Pi Day! I'm in Washington DC. Seeing as yesterday (Pi Day, 3 ... places where you show your stuff such as science fairs. In May, I'll be at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Phoenix, AZ. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... tracking system. They will submit everything in due time, and we will have it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008