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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  again. This semester is incredibly busy for me, busier than I've seen at ... Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at the extraordinary holiday dinner party for Course 17: Political Science ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... 30-minute meals. People always tell me that I have no reason for

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

  IAP is moving along

  

  for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such ... blogs! Anyway, Hunt, which began early Friday afternoon, ended at about 2 ... lab for three 4.5-hour shifts each week, and got to plan, prepare, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  -shifting' for modern time, media Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent ... for good. Instead, producers, writers and filmmakers must engage in ... to imagine future directions and applications for our more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  your college search, you will likely have at least two great enrollment ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... look at a school not already on my short list. Their advice was helpful

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... ) introduce you to others as, "Laura. You know. The blogger." People yell at you ... of all, props to Nehalita for properly identifying him right away

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different ... incoming frosh, remember, take it seriously and go look at places! I don ... former Rush chair for MacGregor, agrees with me. One question I hear

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at ... every facet, and breaking it adequately becomes the feedback loop for your ... culture and hack the systems they build for you. Very fun stuff and very

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  10pm at dphie to hang out with the deephers 11pm get ready for bed ... different things) for IAP and so the jetlag has caused us to all wake up at 7 ... class feels as though it was made for me. It's a special subject class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... harmony it generated for Tong Hua was pretty good, as well as for this piece that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  each and every MIT library. Now I have collected my notes for your ... looking at the stars -- small and yet enormous, alone and yet so comfortably ... original draft for this post, I had given Dewey four stars because of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... and (mostly) unhealthy and the dining halls are open at strange hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  time and space for schoolwork and extracurriculars. I told myself that I ... overestimated my fitness level; it would take me at least twice as long as the ... effort of reaching out to different people, and I was successful for a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  back off at their car it was time for Bianca and I to run Burble through ... Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... driving a Tesla Model S 85.  I drooled at it.  I stole glances at it.  I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... Nigeria for at least a month, possibly more. About a month ago, I began ... for a bit, through the HSSP program, but that’s still not clear at the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  of my biggest reasons for choosing MIT. But back to the scene at hand ... week, stand at the whiteboard. Surrounding them are the unmistakable ... , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  wondering if you knew anyone at MIT that is vegetarian. Are there any special arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... I steadfastly stuck to...at least I did until this class. I talked to ... . I was extremely excited for all of these papers, albeit a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021