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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  is nice, but I guess you can't really compete against school pride ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman ... , and antiques in the United States.' " 'Things I Love' features choice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  classes Monday through Thursday means that I can't attend practices in full, but I've been popping in as much as I can, and I'm also tournament ... provides physical artifacts of each week, which can go in my [annotation note='i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  chess for a bit (you can check out his chess website here) and so I ... , so you can gift Nectar to Gods or your friends in the Underworld. I ... this happen. But this idea lives rent-free in my head. I also consume a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... 's overall rank in class, which can be problematic. Experienced admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  [Independent Projects] I have been doing during these gap years. Can I send in ... , can i update the admission committee about the results in feb?" We may ... one in sience in Jan. if I can? I already took MAth I and Math II." We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... delivered on that front. I’ve never stared at VSCode so much in my life. 6 ... internet we all take for granted. I also learned (somewhat) how to code in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... : Come on, anyone? Aw, what the heck. I stayed in Simmons this summer, and ... reasonable size. Back out in the courtyard, I informed the rush chairs that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... in the months to come! ___ That's it for now! I have a couple other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  students via the DHL website (our shipping company), in essence publishing ... could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  in emailing the CEO to ask for an internship, but can I have one?" The ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , one that can't be reduced to just "let's do things in-person again!" I ... about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... , I know lots of people who've found some community in their religion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall ... you're not interested. but for this post in particular, i think it ... MIT on Pi Day, I started writing up this post in an attempt to express

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... filled fascinating niches in the tech marketplace. I encountered some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014