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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to ... wanted it to be, leaving you with a piece that's[annotation note ... my next attempt. I got a bit bold here and tried to make it look like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... a regular basis meant that I had to be creative. My staples generally ... menu (or at least a food item to be used in the dinner), and people sign

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... to eat. Into Asian cuisine? There's a pan-Asian restaurant, Island ... court (with everything from sushi to Sbarros), a nearby Legal Sea Foods

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... it to any other Hubway station. After searching around a little bit for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually had several more entries partly written, but never got a chance to finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  the FIRST robotics competition. There are two elements to the program: a ... solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot ... how to design and program a robot. They learned that by jumping in and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  It had been quite a while since I looked at MIT's online Hack Gallery. But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... to Agawam. After a pit stop at Dunkin' Donuts (coming to a W20 near

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another ... to apply again in a subsequent application cycle. There are cases when ... out a year hoping to be favored by chance. Plausible, however, does not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... level. While I’m sure these clubs appeal to a large variety of people ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... such a valuable experience to me can be summed up by the word opportunity ... thinking in a collaborative manner, and the exams humble you to accept that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun ... decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an ... seemed like a solid second bet. Besides, I’m out here to gather new skills

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  While you guys are waiting for decisions to be released, here's a ... sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch ... 've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field ... was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries ... continuing of the Meet the Admissions Officers series, a look forward to our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005