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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... . They then start to integrate graduate-level courses with their regular

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... two PSETs due on Wednesday) or about how long days can be (9 AM to 10 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others that have already received the invitation to join us here at Cambridge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... -for-all, resembling an Unreal Tournament. So when UNH asked our battalion to supply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM ... happening at this juncture. Decisions will be available to those who meet all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a week, during which she keeps trying to clean my room. Thanks, Mom. I think.) The things anyone may have said to you about classes and dorms and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on the same day. My comment to Mollie: "Wow, you guys are going to share ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to make it to these mandatory training meetings which conflicted with field

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to ... week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... known as ECs) to help me out at these meetings. After San Jose, I headed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... whatnot. So leaving was bittersweet. To commemorate the day, I thought I ... to know what the place actually looks like. Right. So here it is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006