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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... . In the meantime, my mother made plans for a future carpool arrangement ... comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that ... like a journal club, and the other large project for the semester is that ... , but I was excited because the headliner was Shin Lim, a Boston

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... ."]Family Weekend[/annotation] about a week ago (a few weeks ago, by the time this ... ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... for the meme, but I don't really have a favorite song. I usually ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... , short for Women's Independent Living Group. Last summer, there was a fire ... [/caption] Which they forwarded to the Public Records Officer at City Hall. A few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  textbook for Greek History, did not miss a reading for the short stories class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... for me, I'll have to sew together the pieces of a student's life and my ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  is the Siemens Research Competition. MIT is a University Partner for ... Resources page. The deadline for submission is September 20th, 2016. Just wanted to share a PSA! Sorry I haven't blogged much over the last few weeks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School ... check out the projects, and finally a reception (now with fabulous prizes ... A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... ... Lauren D. '25, a center defender for the soccer team! Lauren actually gave ... It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the ... written for Frederick the Great, who CPE worked for. We listened to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... (pronounced Mara) from across the hall over for dinner. April put out the place ... the 5-minute preparation-Betty-Crocker-meal-in-a-box. (It was only $3 at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  . Then down — for a long time — until I found the road again. There was a sign for the Cooky Monster Cafe, at the same place as a B&B I ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... you going after you bomb a midterm, what keeps you hitting the books ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a ... "] Apparatus and Hand - Salvador Dali (1927)[/caption] The museum has a huge

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  for the Straight Guy." Yes, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) at 10 p.m., Ed ... episode is being advertised with the tag line, "Turn a Poker Dud Into a Five ... featured on an episode of TLC's A Makeover Story. Andrea Wong '88 is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic ... . Currently, the campus dining system is a breeding ground for complaints and ... while spinning a Chinese yo-yo at the same time? Save it for IAP. Planning

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand ... feels like) the first three days of school. [annotation note="to repeat a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022