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• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at ... people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about ... former attorney general, a local actor, and an astronaut come to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  a number of diverse fields - ranging from biochemistry to materials ... their project. Sustainability@MIT is a student group dedicated to ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  to publish after a few more experiments. Amazingly, I've been working ... , you definitely don't need a 4.0 to be admitted, even to the very tip ... involved in a project, at which point they need to start applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, Pedersen decided to start his career ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... computer. So, sorry, Swapnil, it’ll have to wait a bit longer. At the same ... to it tomorrow, I kept saying.) A year and a half later, earlier this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I ... will probably take a little longer than Pangea did to separate. Whether ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... in my [annotation note="PR stands for pull request, a way to request changes to a codebase on github."]PR[/annotation] to separate CKP logs by

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to ... like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  love to use paint as a base for mixed media things) or a new media ... actress (I used to take acting classes through a talent agency and ... as a craft) or a poet (I used to perform at poetry slams) or a food

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a ... my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with ... of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... additions to this post. Bonus: a recent post on Save

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012