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• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  Astro department canceled classes on Thursday and Friday for the AeroAstro Centennial ... as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for Unified Engineering mean my afternoons are very free. Since I'm also living

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -prepared for MIT), especially those where, based on NCES statistics, I think ... figured I would search for a surf shop shielded from the worst of the waves ... Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... conceptually on the same footing as any work done by the graduate students and ... known as a model organism, because since its characterization by Brenner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something ... your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  called metapuzzles, or simply metas. After solving several puzzles, you get ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... for the first time this year,[/annotation] and, as a person who is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... , we got a little worried that we had wasted our money on a blow-out. But ... end, Andy won 7-6, 6-2 (and he later beat James Blake for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this...and...well...here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  depending on the start date for my job, I might go to Germany. MISTI is very ... on a British lit kick lately so I’m particularly excited for this one ... or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... 's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of the entries that could be written. Beyond simply having awesome

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... this free time to do more work. That's not the most healthy mindset, I ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  say yes to some me time. To focus on my health. To care for my body and ... ="1000"] Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks.[/caption]   Each year, fall semester seems to pass by much quicker. Maybe coming off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  and a source of information as the internment period dragged on. By the ... Activities Midway - (by the way, check out Dancetroupe's performance at the ... for the last three years running >____>). And this feeling has

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz, headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  gallery free of charge. On the 28th of February, I attended a talk by Arno ... on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the ... [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] Behind these gray walls, Prof. Harold

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  very long time. His condition is brought on by one day slipping on a ... performed badly (my father’s theory) or simply did not work. Ruth was ok for a ... --just standing, or sitting, or doing work. They don’t simply feel unable to feel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  dorm). I must admit, on the night of January 3 (I left for Spain on ... would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to ... have on the Metro with Chinese emigrants to the city. 7. I love the 75

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  't logged into slack on my phone, for my first two months here. i don't know ... hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  . What I do have, however, is an insatiable desire for free goodies and t ... , but I'm fully willing to sell ad space on my body (and my integrity) for ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses. Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled ... we hope you'll like enough of what you see to want to apply for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006