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• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... .... [caption id="attachment_54023" align="aligncenter" width="537"] only one of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire Costco pack of fruity/sour candy, a movie, some foodstuffs, some other cool

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of ... Traags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• 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 ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and

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

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019