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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  spoke with the last agent. There is no hope for you." "Oh, you can standby ... for your delayed connection." "Though you sprinted through the airport ... with communication." "Huh. Yeah, sometimes transferring tickets gets

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  top 10 or 20 schools (being able to build Iron Man suits overnight, for ... ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  them… but I empathize with their pain) ^^For more details on this ... Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I will be here (in Hilo, HI) for 2 months (June

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  a handful of the events created with you in mind for CPW and I hope ... the campus before. I quickly realized it was all I had hoped for and ... why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your ... order, listed with the Nobel they might win and why they might win it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  .004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always building something scary that does something awesome and it's fun to see his ... home for the summer, and his status updates had hinted . . . Yep. It

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... had lots of fun - including a hysterical presentation by an etiquette ... admissions folks, photographed with their flower pots at yesterday's event

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful ... , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give ... blog is for those of you who love this school already and for those of you who don’t (though I suppose that covers everyone). With the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... smallest waitlists of our peer group. However, this year, with increased ... that this year's academic metrics are very high. For example, 92% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  tune with students' needs this semester. I remember for our first pset ... took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  play on loop the entire @#^?*&! summer, watching the water cascade ... chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is

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

  First Post A little about myself.

  the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three ... ’m excited to share with you all that I’m finding out and I hope you’ll tell me ... out for yourself if a school is the right fit for you. To be honest, I

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  my pants, and I have not studied enough. We have signed up for it; we ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... stopped outside Elko, NV, and then waking up again with the train in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  off #2 (Pull an all-nighter--for fun). I actually had more all-nighters for fun than for schoolwork in the past four years. In chronological ... this flag with Martha ’12 for the Cross Country and Track teams 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  I got waylaid. I forget where I was going with that, but I think it was something about how they were all humming with electricity or making ... best apple-tizer at Burton-Conner's annual apple bake competition with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited ... it later on here boosts the thrill, for I am a wanderer of the ... surprising, and set the tone for my day. I’m certain it will be bright. Later

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  subject, but if someone comes up with a good chemistry question I'll take a ... limited understanding of it, so I'll have to ask some Course 6-ers for help

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  actually are seeing the inside edges of the lens here. So much fun. With ... back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  things he's said is that: "MIT is not a war", "what are you doing for fun ... .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also learned about other students' unique stories with Prof. Winston. Like he

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019