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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers, and commenters are an even bigger part than others. Here's a brief summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... and gender presentation. I found MIT to be an incredibly supportive and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  MIT, or your college choices in general, feel free shoot me an email me ... ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a ... "feel" for a college. I'm really excited to see you guys, the next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  probably an understatement. We've been positively explosive for the past two ... Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before ... Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry, Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to ... for the occasion, since Boston has been in a bit of a warm spell, and my ... in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so ... this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  woods. The oaks are the oldest trees in them. For thousands of years ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  familiar face in an unfamiliar place on a long journey; we chatted for a ... fear that something won’t happen without me—I put in for orchestra ... at for an extended period of time. We are around half an hour away from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  power for some time because it is surrounded by an intricate interweaving ... I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  ="attachment_55965" align="alignnone" width="614"] overview page[/caption] In an ... well as a general note for tracking miscellaneous tasks. It came in handy ... , customize it in small chunks. I'm aiming to use Notion for the fall semester

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange for helping out with dorm rush and move-in activities. More information ... Everyone is up late this weekend studying for finals. I'm immersing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... my whiteboard - I'm an idiot and didn't copy it down, but it read ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  week two is when your beard decides it hates your face, and in an attempt ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an ... ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  tour guide had an active role in this significant research, and the fact ... visiting campus, but it was also my first time in Boston/Cambridge. Here is a ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel ... different departments or something, so I barely see them. I live in an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019