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• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... extracurricular activities, to trips that I made around the UK?” In this way ... learnt them in England, from British people.) These words are among the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to ... allowing employees to use their lunch breaks to watch the inaugural swearing-in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... be: A mission operations engineer in Tokyo, flying a lunar lander to ... continent to continent with all my possessions fitting in a hiking backpack

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... helpful and comforting to see so much of MIT come together in firm ... in Boston to make plain their rejection of these policies and their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Square. Knowing we had a long day in front of us, we resolved to fortify ... mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... delicious dim sum with friends in Chinatown. After gorging ourselves on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very useless information that is applicable to nobody in the real world. The ... what to wear. Reason #4: Grazing and rolling in the grass is an

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  pick up line in the comments, and if you want to see more of what is ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to ... students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this that makes me so proud (and in awe) to be associated with MIT ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for ... been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  jubilation to dissipate. The weather was markedly poor during the third week in ... dark and sunless. But, I still managed to find time to relax in the ... I continued to wallow in what seemed to be my final moments with my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  age-old tale, That owning pieces of the world pales in comparison To ... what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood that it was a personal entry in my personal blog about my personal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... rise from Killian Court in my pajamas. I remember my soon-to ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log into ... you wish to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... . There are many strengths to poetry, but in particular I love the ability

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle ... period. Naturally, my friends and I decided to go. We walked in early and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to ... these two classes in particular tend to be shorter but with more mentally ... process after the week to just have that time to relax and indulge in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018