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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... ambiance and the kinds of people I saw wandering around (you can recognize ... ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA ... specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... (I feel old :( ) being in NYC during term on weekends, longer weekends

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  expressed in an open letter to the Chancellor, which I suggest you read for a ... uniqueness. I can name a number of fellow students who have taken time for ... I phrased this in a way that is obviously sarcastic, since I feel like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the ... to discuss that in more detail, He can pull off wearing suspenders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  with me here, but I don't really count grilled sandwiches from Alpine in ... . And they come with fries! How can you go wrong? I love all kinds of ... were lots of dumb people getting in the way, so I didn't really get any

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  then, I've been in a bit of a rut. I've been freaking out a lot ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I ... (see: very little) experience in. I've also been continuing my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  and beyond. The best advice I can give you for the interview is to be ... early. If you're reading this, what are you waiting for? In other news, I ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  participating in art, dance, or theatre for just as long. I mean, you ... composers! (Can you tell I never got into piano after all? Such regrets) First example, I know a guy who had little singing experience. In high

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... , and I collapse in a couch at a lounge. This was, in fact, how their quad managed to host four people: through couches in lounges. I wake up early the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my rental car. Because I was in California, my first stop was In-N-Out. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when ... twinkle in his eye. We're both morning people, if I found myself walking up ... of centering humans in all technological endeavors. The only time I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... out." In my sleepy haze I grabbed the marker from him and went to the ... Man, it's been a while since I last blogged. I've been a bit hosed

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I ... becomes rich on Flickr**. **In all seriousness, I will give you full credit for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009