Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today ... office. Mostly, we're catching up on work, answering individual questions ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of ... disability) based on prompts such as "Which of the categories do you find most ... vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  buried way down in the bottom right-hand corner of the site, and we had ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... communications of the past. The MIT community is built on a culture of openness

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Tube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT ... ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and ... AMC–except that for those tests, a score of 70% (on a multiple choice

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  would have quit long ago. Anyway, the rest of this post is on a somewhat ... heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  've got my money on Germany. Good thing the weather conditions are better in ... Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  little things like how my room smells. My definition of good ... way of getting that subtle fragrance. The next time you visit the ... straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... culture of MIT dorms and how they foster a community rely on people who make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... still have a couple of friends in it, and most of the work will be on an ... space mission concept that we’ll work on. Regardless of how the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... medium, and I wanted some good copic markers, but quickly realized how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  MIT trying to find new places to study. Some of my favorite places are ... good to have a nonschool-related thing that is your home and source of ... once or twice a month, bringing a good group of friends. Roam, eat, shop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via ... by the Globe Sunday said dozens of people worked on the project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  outside and wears sneakers. Walks into a deep puddle on my way to Stata ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of ... 's different from EC. In some ways, I felt more like myself on Fifth West. Things ... software engineer because of it. I'm glad I get to work on my team, because

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in ... applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions ... on time. Relax. Relax. Relax. Remember, there is no way to "fail." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... - planning events, brainstorming ways to make the events better, that kind of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010