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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... had to navigate to MIT student center. Here we are buying tickets for ... prefrosh she met to dinner in Cambridge. We headed over to the Student Center

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  to be warm but not hoodie warm. I miss sitting in the school parking ... bell almost every day, or not at all. I miss how he used to use ... , despite my mom’s frustration. I miss the lamp that used to be in the living

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  either wouldn't have the skills and/or wouldn't be willing to put in a ton ... person, whether they're student, faculty, or staff, can make the choice to ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... influential that he's said he might actually have to stop blogging in the future

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  't breathlessly trying to keep up with the guys or playing songs in my head over and ... a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1 ... home in Honolulu, Hawaii, then will return to school in the fall. The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  video games where you have to blend in and pretend to be an NPC because ... section to buy something for Loop kitchen-side cat, Zella, and a lighter for ... or something," one of us had commented earlier in the day when we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old ... school, helping to tutor struggling middle school students, or organizing a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  me feel nervous or ashamed that I just happened to know less. Being in ... the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... semester, my lab partner decided to read that blog in front of me, to my mild

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ... or protect themselves from online education. Then MIT stepped in the ... what was profitable or how to defend their existing offerings or just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February ... that I cried to during some of my shittiest moments in high school, and ... buy tickets (tickets released at 10am ET and I was very much in Hawai

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry ... Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  , writing the lyrics, buying the green screen, and directing/starring in the ... was cheering. You had to see it. Eh, maybe it exists in the multiverse ... Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... an 18.01 pset to do. Since Becky and Sam are both not only in 18 ... getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... finch songbird pair bonding, and trying to soak in as much Japanese life ... amusing Lost In Translation-type situations in which she tells me to go run

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011