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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll ... to prisoners, performing a variety show at a nursing home, working with ... semester, ... A large part of the requirements to join, and to continue as a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular ... May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... love the first two weeks of class when I get to experience a new schedule

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  and ready to start (and finish) the 7.012 PSET. Instead, I woke up a few hours later practically unable to speak from a sore throat. So, it was ... understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to ... ”. Chris Welch even offered to take a professional photo outside Killian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the ... Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... volunteering to a passion for languages to butterfly collecting...it all had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn ... people to sing with us. Anyway, we were standing half a block from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  classmates a unique chance to gain valuable research experience and insight ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... whether I want to commit the next few years of my life to becoming a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... visit my friend on the same floor, I had to go down a level, walk to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... freshmen entered the room to take a turn, so we left to give them space. Who ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in childbirth would be said to have been taken by the fairies to nurse a fairy ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  and analyze a bunch of different assays to prove different biological ... my brain just needs to watch a derivation that doesn't exist so I can ... American Fiction Tragically, I have to take a [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008