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• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  the opportunity for four top US students to represent the country at the ... in Brigham Young's historic house (where, for the first time, I tied ... Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  , that Marilee) will be joining us for a song. PLEASE COME! The show is not ... working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  confirm their course schedules for the upcoming term. My advisor, Earl ... high school, our friend Laura '06 caught up with us. We're all graduating, so naturally the conversation turned to our plans for next year. Akhil

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... (December 15), among others. (Death Cab for Cutie was here last week, Rob

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston ... for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence ... of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  blogiversary to all of us. Thanks to the '09s for being our guinea pigs; and a ... 't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... little time for anything else. When I was hired, MyMIT had been designed

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  'll save mine for then.) There are lots of sessions for PE classes -- 2 ... little late for that. I hope I don't end up like my friend Rose, who took ... skates. (Hockey skates are unsuitable for this class.) Rentals are

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... admitted student meetings, help dole out prefrosh for CPW, sign Valentines

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... were enslaved within the US in the past). my father and his family are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for the first half, both because I was physically unwell for a huge chunk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  had fancy little tables for us to eat our fancy little hors d ... about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  --it's over multiple weekends"]CP*,[/annotation] the virtual replacement for ... organized and hosted events, coded things for the massive Discord server ... kind of memed with everyone for another hour or so. I feel like I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  the *web*, even if it’s really hard for some of us. (Get it? Web? It’s a ... for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all ... the Bloggers” event for months. The blogs meant everything to me as an

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of ... the 70s and has been in the finance industry for numerous of years. I ... us, I was led to my desk. And I have to admit, it was cool having my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for ... -necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars ... held class in her office, and made us tea. Anyway, before this becomes an ... for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to ... for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012