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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  about how the ink can start to peel away from the edges at every rip. The ... ’t concentrate at the museum; I felt hollow and unreal. My legs moved before I ... medical community, feeling both terrified at my own disconnect and at the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... relaxing at home. There really are no bounds to what you decide to do ... real science true method of relaxation (source: none). At the bottom of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  to cross MIT campus (especially at night) without encountering at least ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... the Infinite at any time. We have adult bunnies and baby bunnies, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... would like to, you can email mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu and the documents ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... gigabits per second on its own, so yeah, you could say that we at MIT have ... Jeff Schiller. Jeff's been at MIT for a long time, and been network

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  happen, and it happens very quickly. So I'm here at MIT, taking actual ... much time at all at EC - I found myself again and again at Senior House. Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... that has since extended to maybe three) more years at the Institvte. If ... , Brazil and Argentina. If you look back at my blogging archives, you’ll see

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... , you can email mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu and the documents will be added ... page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-late April with an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... call me Krystal “Antelope Legs” Lai. Well, at least they should. While ... salad that she bought at Thaitation for dinner. The puniness just blows me

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  library. At 2:50pm, Carl and his grandma arrived (I invited them.) At 3pm ... grandma) explaining and defending my work and occasionally glancing at my ... leave -- we could start driving at NIGHT, make it a few hours, sleep, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  two weeks ago, at a McCormick observatory public night. McCormick's 26 ... of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... approached him and said I wanted to give talks and volunteer at the open nights

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... feeling here at MIT. I'm free to pursue what's academically interesting or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  D at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt ... anything scripted? Nothing that the contestants said or did was scripted. (at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT ... would teach me to think like an engineer and at the same time, expose me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... his time working at the derivatives desk at Salomon Brothers during the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  start volunteering at a local hospital. Nurse: Birth date? Me: 31 October ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... at the sink, and carried it over to the table. Silence fell as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011