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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this ... that. But if you were, as a matter of fact, you’re right! I have a story

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  example, my field of study, computer science, is centered around developing ... Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... . Sororities are Greek letter organizations that offer lifelong membership, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... 'm Still Alive. Although I didn't actually type out many of my ideas, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  stir fry or salad--both of which are offered nightly, so I'm always ... </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them ... of this post - a few weeks ago, MITblogs got a question from Claire: "I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  away from MIT put a lot of experiences into perspective, and applying ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about ... , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Zuber may have figured out why the moon has a funny shape. [NYT] [Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005