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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was ... it was like "BLOG CONTENT!  BLOG CONTENT!  FIRE! UNICYCLE! MATH

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going to look super cool. I’m not allowed to post any pictures of what it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  now. It is nearing the end of November; the first round of applications ... https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/its_more_than_a_job) (It always just ... feelings on tumblr the other day:     As it turns out, there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write ... . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  last two days have been nothing short of gorgeous (it's SEVENTY-SEVEN DEGREES out right now. hear that? SEVENTY-SEVEN). (it's currently predicted ... the West Campus dorms. Suffice it to say, we do pretty awesome stuff

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  discovery, but they weren't easily able to explain how they figured it out ... it's considered the definitive biography of Franklin's life. Everyone ... kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... also on pass no record so it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just knew

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Student Superstars." Every year, each team nominates its two best students ... supporter of FIRST. Finally, after two long days of qualifying matches, the playoffs rolled around on Saturday. My team had made it into the divisional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many ... is quite good, perhaps even worthy of an “exceeds expectations” when it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... Architectural Journey through Two Indian Cities. It wasn't a particularly heavy ... -brainer. Now, let me warn you that, although this post is a summary, it is far

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  warm ochre when I was strolling down Memorial Drive. I must say, it was ... week that no one (okay, I'm generalizing here - perhaps it's only me ... beautiful afternoons along the river cheered me up. It's a standing joke

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... for a sixteen year old. (He spent my entire childhood swearing it was ... the bravest people I know, but even so, it’s hard not to see the fear in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  always famous alumni. How did he become this year's speaker? It sounds ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  ? ;) This is the obligatory "oh-wow-I-can't-believe-how-fast-time-is-passing-and-I-am-getting-so-jaded" section, but in so many ways, I find it shocking that in a little bit more ... remember my high school graduation trip as if it had been last summer, not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  different (how did she DO that??? It was soooo cold, and imagine reading a ... were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in the book, noting its location, and successfully finding said location

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put an MP3 player program on it and started taking requests for shower ... it somehow, but, hey, functionality beats form anyday. Friday night

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  fifty-minute lecture. There's nothing quite like it. I must admit that ... thought before about how maths came into being. Turns out that calculus ... it. [caption id="attachment_39280" align="aligncenter" width="300

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... tell you how you can solve your plots. A few of those sheets had not yet ... yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns ... smell here, but it was probably a fusion of tangerine, liquid nitrogen ice ... smelly smells] wafting throughout the campus. And it was all incredible. 3

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008