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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  conducted research for a report on how the next administration should approach ... continuing it as an alum, but I decided that it'd be good for someone new to ... freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  MIT events, hands down. And STAY TUNED to see how you can join our team ... weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  the time and effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  FOREVER Tape is notable for being sticky. Josh decided to put this ... , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... medical; y'know, places that have to deal with my legal name. For the most ... change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I ... people to "ask more dumb questions". I had a few, but I'll leave them for

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... patience, selflessness, discipline. And it’s okay to retreat for a day or two ... addition to not giving up, though, I also constantly made plans on how to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  also how they choose to frame that. The project made me notice the things ... believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  balance. I wish to conduct myself in a mature manner at my workplace, for ... childish, authentic excitement for everything. I wish to be knowledgable ... how to fail. Perhaps even more importantly, I always found something

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  explained the "casing the joint" means "looking around for things to steal ... take too much time...but something to consider." I considered it for ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  for how you can get to know MIT better -- a great starting point are ... ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information ... 'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... /self study, I began to realize that I needed something for me, outside of ... learned that for me, one remedy is to create. I decided to pick up art again

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod ... how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees ... making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... my roommate for their preparation and protective measures. So I try to ... that I will refer to as Team Awesome. This is the catch-all for the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... dorm, went to advising meetings and chose classes for the first semester ... for the most part, i would still say yes to many spontaneous plans

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient ... Campus is a “cook-for-yourself” environment, which better translates to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  thing I identify with when I think about who I am and how I want to be ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work for me, I'll have to sew together the pieces of a student's life and my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006