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  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... Day five years ago. In the weeks and years preceding, getting into MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... felt compelled to go. So after eating dinner at my college, I headed over

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  to get my Brass Rat 12) Unknowingly ended up in a private Sting ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and ... time to explore during the weekdays, and life seems to just be get up, go ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was ... . I went through a lot (seriously, A LOT) of stress to get here, but at ... so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  guide to getting groceries as an MIT student. I’ve been quietly ... where you can buy groceries from local farmers and get them delivered to ... always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  opposite direction to get to Colón, which is the way I need to go to get home ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and ... , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... . It actually looks beautiful, and I might have to check out Vaduz or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  experience back home to students who might never get the chance to visit ... and guests! Ofc we had to get a group photo[/caption] Speaking to all of ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  any true ownership over a project. My dream job is one where I get to do ... science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  sure to get our feedback for our weekly quizzes, too. I was really just ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places. Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  what we call the dressers. I'm pretty sure I need to climb on top to get to everything, but I feel like getting down will be really challenging ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007