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• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  I found this in my living group’s library and started it on a whim. I ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  chatted with a few prefrosh (Hi Amelia!) and found myself not quite as on ... .  Why?  Because I've let life slow down a bit since graduating.  On campus ... /from work (which, though less than desirable, is really helping me climb the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend ... worry about what you list as your "intended major" on your application ... what you put down. That question's only purpose is to help the Admissions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about ... ; In today's (Wednesday's) edition of the Boston Globe, the second major ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on them in small groups. It was really helpful and made me feel like she was ... class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... today, asking myself what I would have wanted to hear last year. I'm not ... amazing things with your lives. I wish I could tell you that one of the most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  ) helps a lot. When moving after MIT, I planned to not live ~too~ close to ... mentally, I still find it a bit helpful. If I lived, let’s say, a 5-minute ... not living on campus during undergrad, but I enjoyed living on campus

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... classes. they're pretty much the only things i've been putting on my ... interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  MIT's course materials on the Internet. George S. Zaidan '08, a ... start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of ... first heard from George through this blog -- he stumbled upon it on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... , because of one simple choice. Living an examined life starts with the ... participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living place. One hour after I get there, when I sit down to work on some Problem ... get on and through with it. What I don't miss I don't miss answering

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before, in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... circle, which helped me forge better relationships my sophomore year. One

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the ... ,000 people living at the camp on their campus, or about 4,000 families of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  on our journey, one which would take us across Boston and involve the ... when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... and without chocolate on top. They fill the puffs with your choice of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... 'd be the one to make the news in that manner, not her. It was just a very ... things, but I was only met with radio silence. At that time, I was on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the ... 's population had seemingly doubled on the cusp of the weekend as tides of alumni

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009