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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  with a healthy helping of pasta, a sadly bimodal fruit salad (in which I ... I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... game in the ALCS, I was on Burton Third starting to plan out our 6 ... I'm not a big sports fan. Never have been. Nashville doesn't have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  Transportation was what got me into urban planning in the first place! So I decided ... started this summer while in Brazil. When I first got to MIT, I largely ... notices in an environment. If I were to look at a rock, I'd probably be able

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... , ethnicity, and sexuality in both critical and creative work. Limited to 13. I ... 3 paged comic script. Like I said in the post, this class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  ; in a sad justification of his self-imposed theme. And you would be ... take it all in, and I think that’s what MIT looks like overall. If you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while ... inside. But until then, I’ll try not to look anything directly in its eyes.... ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  's home than your own. The point of this diatribe is that I would not try ... brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... synchronicity, I was jogging in the Z-Center on Wednesday and Ina Garten was on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... zillions of essays. Over and over again. I literally wrote something in the ... (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... . Similar to Spain last year, I'll be living with a host family in Japan while taking Japanese classes in the daytime. Growing up, I've been to Japan more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... ”, Urban Studies and Planning --I know someone that would respond “Majoring in 5 and 7, with minors in 9 and 14”. Translation: “I’m crazy.” Well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... Hobbiton, Harry Potter entering Diagon Alley. I would have descended into ... outdated, but think Galahad in Temple Anthrax. I’d recently brushed up on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  calc, I just thought it would be interesting), quaternions, a queer event ... middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in ... code in the future, once I have scrubbed it). You played as a witch who

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  really meant was, “How do I know more people?”, because in my experience ... make our deepest contributions in the lives we touch. I’ve never ... others through meaningful conversation. I’ve realized that it’s in these

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this ... students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... DISCLAMER: Again I must inform students that this post is directed at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006