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• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  skipping town on frigid New England winters and frigid academics while I ... and the co-author of the best textbook on General Relativity ever ... Robert Frost never thought of that one.) On the other hand, I'm slightly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... here; as you can see, there are lots of ways to fulfill the requirement ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... doing but which can also eat your time. On top of all this, despite our ... I received the following question on tumblr the other day:  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  recruiting new pledges and helping them go through the process of becoming ... ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  , thinking that MIT might be too hard, too fast, or too something that makes ... that on some gloomy judgment day after college applications were in, all ... the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  confirmation that EC is the next dorm on the list for renovations. the rest of ... . one of the things i liked about the meeting was how it was focused on ... students worked on historical research projects about many aspects of ec

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  . On the way home, we ran into Jerome, I think wearing one of the hats ... of the hot dog, especially with Vanessa's homemade chili con carne on ... DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... because I was in the back row, but here is a pretty good picture of the top ... Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  . Next came the weird business of figuring out how many stamps to put on ... ." Turns out that there's truly no way of knowing unless I physically go to a ... meanings of philosophers' quotes" way, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... , learn their names. At the end of the semester, there was a quiz on that ... on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 's new Biological Engineering major got me thinking. The number of majors ... on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and ... Frost to Billy Collins' coming-of-age poem "On Turning Ten" to childhood ... resistors on a small piece of foam posterboard. By the end of the day, we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  on this. I can't really find a good way to put it, but I think I ... not realize how good I had it. Last year, I saw Of Montreal (twice ... to "17 years" on myspace... so good.) Unfortunately, during the opening

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... THAT issue out of the way, let's address the college essay. If you want help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  hung up on the details of your test scores. Besides, most MIT students ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  I don't think it's a good idea to be on 72 units, for the sake of ... lines of, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to ... -to-shoulder with the sun, The world is waiting on me for change. I am never scared of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... Library in New York, and then brings thousands of sketchbooks to six other ... ”. Off we went for 4th of July weekend. Some sights along the way: This

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  polish them; the rest of the paragraphs just become a way to link the main ... lot of good work is unrewarding for reasons beyond one’s control. for ... have lots of evidence that the idea isn’t good and no reason to believe

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... bubble I've been this semester. Lots of new faces. I talk to many of them ... few weeks since career fair ended). Many of us can't wait to dig in on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016