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  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big ... was my first time on the Slugfest wiki. I enjoyed reading about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  something new or surprising, and it doesn't break my bank, why shouldn't I ... holiday festivities, I would bring you a window into my daily commute (sadly, by automobile - but at least it's not too long) and into my work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  realize I only have x days left, and crawl back to my desk to attack ... Course 5 (chemistry), because of my unnatural (dare I say.. inorganic ... I completely forgot to write about my CPW - which was awesome fun

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  twenty-minute drive from my house. The only thing I scored this semester was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project ... really hearing and caring about my music as I was writing it. After my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to start working, andI stayed up until 5:00 to finish my essay. Shockingly, I was pretty tired for my 9:00 AM lecture on Tuesday morning ... get coffee. Coffee = bad! Here is my first page of 14.05 notes

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

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  hockey, so we postponed my first day by six months.) Monday was the 2 ... ’s always my least favorite part. Of anything. Ever. Well, this particular 2 ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

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

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of ... , a culinary "competition" for which my floor routinely cranks out about ... that my SAM: Spaghetti, Apple, and Meatballs didn't win the award for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  my 10.490: Integrated Chemical Engineering problem set (which ... encountered my suitemate and moral compass Dizzle '09, just finishing up a 2 ... all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to ... grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could best agitate my mouth (using my tongue as an approximate Rushton impeller

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... times a week in the Stata Center, taught by Professor Bawendi; my 5 ... today with one of my favorite professors, Carlos Lois. (The good thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has ... television show. And believe me, my knowledge of reality television is pretty ... on my blog (readership roughly equal to that of the Washington Times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ’s been two years, yikes). I didn’t want to just post my essays straight ... . Instead, I thought I’d show you guys one of my essays through Google Docs ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  My brother's not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words ... until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply ... brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... . Last Friday, my older brother (MIT '11) and I took off from San Francisco ... . After orienting ourselves and collecting my luggage, we hopped on a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my ... wrote about my kick-butt little brother. (Not saying that this is the ... painstakingly to create the ideal shape. All of my academic stress has culminated

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... myself about which person in my row of the theatre would start weeping

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  publish, my browser window mysteriously reloaded and I lost the entire thing ... my day. Brag My beautiful curly-haired boyfriend won third place in ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006