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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... gathered in a biology teacher’s classroom, attempting to excel in something ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  , because at a place designed to provide us with as many resources as possible ... narrow corridor. Exit through this door, not that one–it leads to a five-second faster route, and requires 10 fewer stairs to climb. It’s a background

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... beanbags into the hole. It was a surprisingly idyllic way to spend a Friday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  engineer. Our objective was to design a process that would produce a certain ... the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... a.m. walks back to Baker House became my norm this semester. So, the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent ... . After dinner we finally made it to our actual house. After a rather ... " places, I've decided to take a hit to my resume and spend what is likely to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... apparently a high school boyfriend’s mother decides to hold a birthday party ... I ran into a group of friends the Sunday before finals on my way to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than a dorm, and I have to take the T a lot. Fiance news Adam and his ... for a year or twor, then go back to grad school -- the company he ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... 've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  this is basically a temporary goodbye (and a permanent goodbye to the ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. I'll spare you the various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... So, MyMIT is back up, and things are back to normal around here. (Or ... Counselors (ECs). The deadline to contact your EC is now this Monday, October

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... comic's readers to choose among MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... don't, I assure you that you have a host]. We also have some backup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  a tangent for a second, I have to say that one of my absolute favorite ... . I'm so excited. I have been assigned to a prefrosh, but I won't be ... Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... 's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005