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• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  entirely different way, sharper and more immediate, than the blunt ache of ... the sand, a quantitative way of keeping track of my future hosage. To ... time I spend on each one. Then I just kind of stared at the numbers. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  of scattered light in the top right, and a piece of the Milky Way in ... neither of us knew what it was. When Ariel the mermaid showed up on his ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  my name, Planes and space is my game, First American on the moon, that's my claim to fame. Some say I look ugly, Some say I look good, But outer space is my neighborhood, On July 16, 1969, Apollo left earth with one

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... -powered airplane. The guys with their plane on the day of its first flight test ... company is a really good fit for him personality-wise and in terms of his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  MIT, but because of the way the story flowed from one scene to the next ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . The scholarship was just the second in a string of good news for Garay ... financial aid award*. "When I started reading 'On behalf of the Admissions ... drive to be accepted at a good college or university made him too hard on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  both books (oppression, fighting, the merits of “old ways” and “new ways ... like this for class, but it actually had many moments of commentary on ... ambiguity of real life, with no clear good and evil people, yet, a lot of good

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... numbers of COVID cases on their campus.) For various reasons, some perhaps ... have way more time for these two things when I'm working instead of being

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  final until they go out the door of the admissions office on the day we ... , usually on the order of lower double-digits. S&Mer wrote, "Just out of ... there is some problem with the mail server" Something on the order of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... 's done way more than that...) Pretty amazing stuff. Meanwhile, one of ... Consumers" where they talk about some new technology that's being developed by

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  blood pressure's kind of fucked and it's not a good idea to go on a high ... utilize the time in college to focus and explore a new life of independence ... someone to cling on to and someone to turn to always. Now, I'm kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  't call everything a feel good game. i'm working on my first large code ... single, uber-version of myself that includes all possible good things in ... carry on, i carry on." in the million million possible worlds of classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  to raise their newborn daughter. On hiatus. I haven't read a lot of ... of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too ... essay, of course. By the time it was dark outside I was laying on my bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... lifetime of disadvantage and I needed to do it as fast as possible ... some of the content before, on day 1, I already feel behind. Even if that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... this. I also talk in other ways the rest of the time, I promise! One fact ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  on the dry erase board in their floor lounge "Conner 2: Home of the ... Conner 2 as well, so now there are three of us all on the same floor ... turf field, only because I noticed on the first day of practice that if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  's MIT. That's MIT, seen in a way that's beautiful. Those of you who came ... beautiful. The gestalt effect of all the murals painted on a hall or floor, or ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is ... our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT students and our own admissions criteria to ensure we make good decisions for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  of moods on this playlist is very large New artists listened to: 643 ... . I don't remember. Overall, this wrapped is a good summary of what I ... Music)" (Hozier) Top 100 songs playlists: good shit good shit New

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019