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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 ... produced an entirely original blog post. This in turn will slow the pace of ... , ocean, land, Boston, adrenaline, scramble wildly for luggage, group in MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... something intangible—a relationship, an experience, a math proof. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 minutes consecutively. The bill came up for vote andpassed immediately ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... here in the first place. But what about those other qualities that aren

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... there were people sitting in the aisles of our biggest lecture hall for ... housing for free in return for volunteering at Commencement. More later

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  love with MIT in the same way I did. Hopefully I've done an okay job ... entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for example, the New York Times called Toscanini's "the best ice cream in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving ... up in the air and stand back, let life take its course. An unexpected ... what she told me in no way relieved my regret for forgetting about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  extended gaming sessions. Setting up an in-house League game. A wall of ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my papers. My first few weeks at Cambridge flew by. Participating in meets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  awareness and send prayers for peace in Burma. The event was held on October 3 ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... at MIT, he was extended an invitation to speak on campus, which he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... 's premiere of the show in 10-250, Ankur '04, shared some of his thoughts and ... 's errors reporting about admissions statistics, the Tech also had an article

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... was in Woodie Flowers’ 2.70 design class at MIT – a story for another

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due ... of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities ... -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  you for the firehose of an MIT education. But I think if there's any one ... splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in ... students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... involved with. In fact, there are over 50 different music, theater, and dance

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... indefinite haze of time sitting there, in an empty office, in a deserted ... identity that I built for myself on the day in 4th grade when I decided that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... were back at MIT, and then half an hour later I was back in my dorm ... . In fact, last year the MIT pistol team won the National Championships

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  probably 6:30 or 6:31 pm. We logged in. Our letters wouldn't load for a ... when we, for the first time in all of high school, really allowed ... . Logged in. Waited for our screens to load. It was all too familiar

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  there's flames in the background! For no reason! Prompt: "Where are you ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022