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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in ... performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... 's. Grad school Well, for one, see above. For another, I never wanted to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... than them? My dad plays trivia with a group of buddies who range from ... amateur musical theater shows or write Linux tools for fun or whatever it is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert ... feeling back into our fingers and to work, or in my case, play UC Love

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  myself as a prefrosh, wishing all you younger-uns best of luck for what ... -written, student-produced one-act plays about everything from love and maturity in ... journal, and tomorrow night I'll be taking photographs for Technique at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the ... at the end of 1994, where Adam Riess was to play a crucial role. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...e_of_the.shtml Play hard, and then work hard (Melis) http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  one of endurance, that you do it over and over again for 26 miles and it ... vying for course 16 grads at career fairs, I'd say you're pretty set if ... is in engineering and the huge role fluid dynamics plays in Aeronautics

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• 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 ... able to update my blog this summer! I feel so guilty for my prolonged

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

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... playing "Baby Got Back" or something. There are, however, excellent sunrises

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three ... out for yourself if a school is the right fit for you. To be honest, I ... friendly they are. They like the playful spirit and sense of humor of the

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... for the portions. Still, how can I resist the prospect of a random three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen ... great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... others knew that physics wasn't for me lol. Course 20 (Bioengineering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  on the third floor of Walker Memorial and cry internally for 50 minutes ... for the midterm, I realized that there’s really no way around it. The ... starts Wednesday, calm for about 5 hours on Thursday, panic the entire

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  requirements. Other dorms would be less understanding. As for your plasma screen ... your dorm room (in any residence hall), except for microwaves and hot ... : good blog,I am doing research for my Daughter,she wants to apply to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  -full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself ... competitive whatsoever. I think there's friendly competition and games, but ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  we gonna use it for?" It turned out that her room in our apartment had too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... this whiteboard for everything. (We're probably a little too proud of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... conference covers everything from computational models for describing human ... lasted for six very intense days. Each day, there were two different poster

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE THE WHALE! Nice weekend. More later. Okay, more. So, for words ... I am, I got to Boston's South Station at 10:28 AM ready to depart for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006