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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But ... conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... really transformed into the type of person who leads those headache

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart[/annotation] but rather spending-all-of-IAP-on-opposite-coasts-apart! Here’s what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... ’s, Oculus Rifts, laser cutters, 3D printers, bandsaws, plywood, 1000 yards of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  about it in the comments. The gist of it is that many FSILGs offer dining ... This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  code of ethics in financial institutions. After that, I would eat dinner ... part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  TW: Detailed Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault, Brief Mentions of Pedophilia and Disordered Eating   This piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... be taking alot of electives since I need them for a graduation ... that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... respectful"]San Juan, Puerto Rico[/annotation] with 11 out of 13 of my living

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  , analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... the airport[/caption] The two desginated adults of the trip were Admir

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs ... among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... one year left. I found out I have ADHD? But I guess a lot of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock-full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  limited by the lack of arts it offered. We asked our guidance counselor if ... Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of ... on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  like thinking about it. speaking of my classes, i haven't talked about ... "make your own python". i'm having a lot of fun thinking about ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  of childhood: dorms and dining halls, an institute that makes it easier ... If indeed I post this on time, as of February 9th, 2021, I’ll be ... around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021