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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right ... undergraduate population of approximately four thousand people from all walks of

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday ... some of us not recieved our financial aid packages yet? I know I got all of my information in on time. Why did we not recieve our financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool ... that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster ... Screening: "The Name of the Disease" with introduction by Filmmakers Abhijit V

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... ). Yeesh. E&M neurophysics problems and Matlab implementations of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... aurora borealis. Of course, I don't have any pictures of these things ... exciting pictures of an apple farm. Saturday morning was OUT OF CONTROL

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... , regardless of what internet speculation sites have said. Really! Ruth's just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all-nighter," so I'm figure pretty well on my way there. Of course, I think one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... highlight of my trip because we did so many awesome activities that day. Our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  academic pressure of MIT, even if the pressure is significantly reduced now that I'm a senior. the class has a mix of trained dancers, self ... does—it's great to have a teacher with such a huge range of experiences

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in shop we weld two pieces of steel together, then clamp one down and slam ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  of pieces, delivered by individuals or small groups of actors, talking about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  m: i've been having a lot of trouble blogging lately so i'm thinking of doing a blog that's just like, conversations i've been having with ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019