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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  . Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... . It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie. It's also kind of crazy to be able

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  learn how far it spread, whom it spread through, and how well contact ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  started rowing, chasing the setting sun, not knowing how long it would be ... axolotl. lush caves weren’t around when i first started playing; it’s a ... ? how far could i get? thus, began the journey to the end of the world

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is ... tonight?" "Giuseppe! For the hundredth time, you very well know where it is ... tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  phrase because it negates the notion that a "year off " is a year-long vacation where you don't actually do anything productive. Not only that, it ... enough, considering it aligns pretty much exactly with the hesitations I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  computer screens? It had been easy to ignore, at first, how things are ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no ... it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  , busy, loud road, so it's pretty much understandable. She does, however ... bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  afternoon. It won't distract you too long, though - it's only 3 minutes and 14 ... pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... know feeling of anticipation right before decisions are released, what it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... put this into my Thursday night TV-watching repertoire. "How much time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  freshman and try it. If I'm in Boston next summer, does anyone want to ... hometown, and yelled and jumped up and down. I never told my mom how I lost my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  depending on the converstaion, it might be "Chris, what have YOU been doing ... deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming back, I think it was one of those moments that helps solidify what it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from ... involving writing, kid shows like Arthur, and you guessed it, the Internet ... roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  bookshelf in my personal blog. It's now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone several renovations. What does the bookshelf of an MIT student look like ... How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  my own. It turned out that a TON of people wanted to learn how to weld ... : the steel MIG welder. It does have an aluminum setting, but from ... second hour is reserved for welding your own thing, as long as it can be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  someone else can write the Hunt. No one ever does it: everyone understands ... really is playable. And yes, it’s a good reminder about how much we ... Mystery Hunt last month (as did our own Anna). It turns out that not only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  housing lottery, does not guarantee your first choice, but it does give you ... rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... their final dorms (sometime Wednesday), it’s time for In-House/Floor Rush

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  ! What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly ... right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  FJo What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... MIT summer camps and programs It's time for those of you who might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017