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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  destination. Someone is walking down the pavement, hands probably snuggled in ... stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... was almost there. A few minutes later, he’s in a much brighter place, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  obligations always tended to cross paths. And yes, now MIT is in a different ... is there a more desirable middle ground? (Keep in mind that I lack the ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... way back, I stumbled across a park.     In the park, I ... later. This fort--now a park filled with fluffy dogs--is the last

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  . This may sound like we simply fall back into a well-worn rut, but in fact MIT is quite remarkable in its constant pedagogical experiments and ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  posts when I was an actual undergrad blogger. That is probably a sub-optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  blogging more frequently in November. In the meantime, here are a couple of links to tide you over: First, The Human Factor is a video that MIT has ... video is wearing an MIT sweatshirt. :-) Only a few more days remain

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don ... impressive and inspiring and wonderful, etc. In the past few days, a few ... so genuinely interested in our experiences and worries; we had a very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  because she is lucky and I am not, and since New York is only a 4-hour Fung ... my high school was pretty sweet too, except in a different way, because it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  (it's 6. That's it. The answer is 6*), getting in based on a fabrication ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... fall visit to a college or university that you are interested in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  quite a few reasons, one of which is summed up in some faux-sage advice in ... .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a ... eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... , and there is a lot of room to grow. It's exciting to be around other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to ... Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  because they're interested in doing community service. And indeed, this is a ... sometimes, APO is still a community, and we're reminded of it in unexpected ... ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008