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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all ... accordingly and went for a jog in order to make myself hungry. A group of us

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... blogger, but I have to wait for either Laura, Evan, or Jess to move out of ... rushed to help by giving me a chance to guest blog for her, which is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... person than you see when they're writing about why they want to be an

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  . Awesome.] As a freshmen, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  twenty miles tip-to-tail. We’d speed through the middle for a few minutes ... hundred planes jetting to Italy just for us to bumble around, confusing ... full attention to the person across from me, I’ll gesture and speak

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... will realize I want to do for my whole life. I know myself, but I no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient ... , deadline to deadline, feeling myself grow as a person, as i learn more about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with ... . Check out hacks.mit.edu for more, and here's info on the book Nightwork

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that ... stress for what now seemed to be an endless four-year marathon to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  to look for another student like them? If we go to the waitlist, we ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... to Cincinnati for the Miller Nichols Chapter Presidents Leadership

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To ... , 2008 1:51:44 AM EST To: rich Cc: burton1 Dear Richard, We have ... you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  the BSU Lounge to take in-person suggestions for the list. The PAC ... , but they called for multicultural spaces, offices dedicated to minority ... had already been met here or did not apply to MIT. For example, we have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  nothing can change our commitment to tackling big, important problems for ... struggling on deciding what exactly this is a metaphor for in my personality ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  resources MIT gives us by going to the Writing Advisor for the class for ... new home for myself that I never want to leave. Anyways, enough about ... ON BIRTHRIGH IT WAS SO GREAT!!  Birthright is a free trip to Israel for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  which are all pieces I've been kicking myself to read for a while ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet ... the free tour and food you'll all have to hang out naked together for a ... nostril, you'll supposedly have good luck for seven years. Eager to soak in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!