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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , yourself. On your terms. How and when you want to. You might not be ready for ... We were recently thinking about our bad middle school experience, and ... it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  readers: you'll learn to enjoy baseball and American football, really, but in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk ... , Pennsylvania, and New York; about 15 applications so far today, all said. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  fruits and veggies that could last the two weeks between Haymarket on ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... /cabinet/shelf (or whatever method of food storage you might use) and concoct a meat

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What does the D-Lab do?

  , technology development, and community initiatives, all of which emphasize experiential learning, real-world projects, community-led development, and ... D-Lab is building a global network of innovators to design and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , procuring free pizza, chemical properties of creamer, and various other MIT ... pen ever, given free tech swag, and now we get to let you try it. :) ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  plans for the term and during the week before Drop Date to discuss how ... . True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... !) and she humored me. But then she told me that she sees money in how much ... Lab, is small, demanding and moves incredibly quickly. Each semester the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  cards, we enjoyed free food, refreshments, and music. At the Worn Wear ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  this holiday. If you are an Early Action applicant and your My ... documents during this period. If you are a Regular Action applicant and your ... forgotten your MyMIT username and/or password, you should use the "forgot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  suite had some Chinese around, And MIT moral code says to free food I ... , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all ... hoping for at least one 5 AM rest; And I with my physics, roommates with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  minutes after that we went and found the free food. (It was delicious ... last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  , Steve Graves, Daniel Hastings, and Paul Gray. Each year, many brilliant ... members have included Wolfgang Ketterle, Patrick Henry Winston and Don ... smelters environmentally benign. He invents materials and batteries that will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... ’m like - HEY! That’s great! And then I remember, the public library IS MY ... library - an air-conditioned, wifi-ed, water-fountained, educated, cultured

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  'll be speaking "on the role of the Fed and recent economic conditions ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend ... Ensemble and is directed by MIT Theater Arts Professor Tommy De

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007