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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  left at home in Canada. The highway rest stops are different in the ... what I'm sure will seem like a lifetime and no time at all here, and I ... is weird to actually realize a childhood dream, and I'm sure tonight at

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

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  memories at MIT, I can’t avoid thinking about moments walking down the ... thing that stuck with me during my time on campus, it’s that at MIT, there ... , we can overcome those challenges at groundshaking speed. United, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  . At MIT in general, and this semester specifically, you have all been ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at ... ; The commencement stage at dawn   flowers of MIT  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  female figure in my life and still (even being at MIT!) the smartest person ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the ... surprise you. There are (unfortunately) some in STEM fields, even at MIT, who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  high school romance and I was like yeah I love this dude. And then at ... I had been dating for maybe a month at that point, my romantic mind can get a little inflated at times. This was no exception. My idea of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  them is checked out at the library ^^;       (nf ... ’ve been trying to diversify the books I read. I’ve at least successfully ... the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  flyers at the expanded hem of the skirt, to the sharp, skintight and clean ... in the Arts at MIT. He told us about the studio on the fourth floor of ... ’m horrible at it. If you’re in some need for some inspiration, watch MIT

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  ; Reasons not go: The event starts at 8am. My sleep schedule has been ... would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... their Master's at MIT. Sumeet Shah from Brand Foundry Ventures, an early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... device (lab computer, phone, athena cluster), or at events, or reading, or studying from hard copies, or doing psets, or tutoring, or at meetings, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted ... silent at night, except for the occasional other pair of adventurers or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... ' essays. Don’t read the anthology. It won’t help at all. Find a voice that ... ? Minimalist applicants are at an advantage. Don’t over-describe. That shiny

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  by comic book writing, now by this) and I'm able to look at media ... bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... generally social and likes to follow people around and meow at them, but if ... to work and just sits on your keyboard and stares at you, which I would

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  think about the boy I met earlier this week, at the light-rail station. I ... at the weed culture in Colorado. I said I thought stoners were boring ... textbooks until I graduate. But mostly, I’m just eager to go read, up at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  flattened into words on a screen. and then i threw myself at the in-class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for ... a few flat words on a screen. marvel at this fact. and then talk to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic ... ? Sunnyvale, CA What are you doing this summer? Working at HP researching ... a nutshell? I'm working as a counsellor at a math summer program

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  perfume. Hint: These books exist because people at name-brand schools ... Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can ... rule of thumb is: imagine that someone at a family reunion — a cousin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  students they need to admit. At this point, colleges will begin admitting ... ;unenroll" at the first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  family attic storing years and years of toys and photo albums. At some ... favorite thing about the new redesign is our new feature at the bottom of ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  the greatest things about being at MIT. We learn a lot about how to use ... rate, we are no longer alive. If our blood pressure is at a certain level ... .2-7.4…we die. Is it really coincidental that a neutral pH is at 7? Is it just

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011