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• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to ... joked about how the opener, a band called The Weather Station, had a ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around ... elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... line. That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  It's not very often that you see someone like Tenzin Gyatso, better ... seeing him on stage, it became clear that, even for all the reverence he ... alongside teams of A/V specialists and cameramen. But hey, it was completely

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  difficult class and I wonder how it'll end up. 21F.076 Globalization - 9 Units ... end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To ... slot worth it. 6.004 Computation Structures - 12 Units 004 is the course

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  says a lot about MIT. It says the kind of things about MIT I will be ... and their families. It says that MIT is community oriented. Truly. The ... the lone genius working alone is turned on its head. A place where

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of it, without having experienced CPW previously. How many campus visit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  science. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that my dad was an engineer and my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I used to do with Tinker Toys and K’nex. Perhaps it was DESTINY. Whatever

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... of bloggerdom, crowding my blogspace with its inconvenient, road ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And told her how to log in. And listened to her read the letter. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  debate and class-wide discussion about why this happened and how it could ... , Congratulations on completing your first year at MIT! It has been a tough year, filled with its ups and downs, and we hope that all of you are enjoying

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  mechanical engineer, they become very excited. It turns out that they are ... , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their robot. When they put their robot together and tested it, they found that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  It all started on Monday night. I had a big French III essay due ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  /D/F?" "What?" said Dizzle. "Pass / fail! Should I put it on pass fail ... , yes, put it on PDF, you're a senior, you should sshshngngngngnnnn." So ... C or whatever and it still comes out on your report card as that most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  is included in the term "extended family," and she thinks it's great ... interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything- because it is an insanely awesome/amazing/fantastic place. But it is still a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too ... on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... numbers). It must be between 3-8 characters, and it must be unique. There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... figure out how they work best. For me, coffee shops work quite well, for ... , Post-It notes, and a few other necessary items). Luckily, Lorelle found

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  a real hip club in downtown Boston. It was louder than I expected. The DJ’s medleys weren’t particularly great, but it was still a fascinating ... again this weekend because it’s Bad Ideas weekend (more on that later) so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  Staging Demo gave me a taste of how amazing it feels to meet our goals. I ... semester just goes to show how strong the community and its members are. I ... and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021