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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  real MIT students doing their own differential equations homework. Very exciting. My advice to you— If you brought homework, don’t do it. Meet people ... Saturday Morning Breakfast Cartoons Do you want to Catch Them All? Have you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... someone who really knows what he's doing, you can look like you really know what you're doing. Sometimes, even if a song was strictly speaking *not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  -it-or-lose-it ; that means that if you skip breakfast (which you inevitably will do over ... 't cover. You can do better than that.  Cook for yourself, eat tastier (and ... skillet.  Toss. 5. Add basil to be fancy. 6. Attempt and fail to do

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  be on the top right.” “I don’t see it. All I see is the sun. Do you see ... suddenly authorized to do big things. This epiphany is especially relevant to ... ’t need an MIT education to start doing amazing, world-changing things

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  show that engineers can communicate through words as well as they do ... ’s house. I’ve been meaning to do this all of IAP; what better time to do so

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for ... was soothing to get outside - to talk with an old friend, to do things ... them elsewhere, doing the things you would have done if you were here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  virtually sing, showing their passion for what they do. It's part of the ... idea that someone who was doing so well academically could turn around ... nature of the procedure. Rarely do adolescents, especially adolescent males

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  - where bio majors do a research project for the semester right before ... of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and ... sometime between May 1 and May 15 I will be doing the same again (albeit no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  . Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon ... MIT, and I suggested she come into the city and we talk about it / do a ... -minute advice would be: do not focus your application on what you think it should

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing ... =Charles River), desperately trying to do a tack turn. The boat turns about 90 ... . The advantage here is that you don’t have to do anything with the rope

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure ... , UROP is a research program at MIT that actually has nothing to do with ... friends who've worked in the same lab or by bugging professors who also do

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  loss of the VHS tape (do any of you remember VCRs?) when I happened to ... thought that we should weigh in on this conversation. So what do you think ... , Michelle Obama rolled her eyes, as geek wives often do. Yes, geeks have

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  try their luck. What sort of stuff do we deal with? Lots of stuff ... to make their computers do crazy (impossible?) things. Sometimes the ... knows way more about computers than you do, but you've got to pretend

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... nothing to do with how Tuesday managed to slip into the slender crack ... , innocuously dubbed the First Day of Classes. Fondly do I remember ditching my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  Must-Do's. So far, dim has been summed roughly every other weekend, and I ... Hemingway-esque novella, except with less fish. Fondly do I reminisce on my ... I do homework on Friday nights.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  your non-native language means, I just do. Languages just make sense to ... out. "I could never spend the rest of my life doing these things, there ... baseball games, and then I just started writing and doing my diagramming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... exactly how tempting it is to put things off...but look at this way: do you ... you've finally hit that "Submit" button, do yourself a favor and treat

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  the survey were probably "What famous personality do you remind yourself ... started at 10 AM, but Shana had some things to do that morning with her ... line?" and "If it takes 3 minutes to do an audition, they will probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  are doing all this: all the design parameters and cost estimations, all ... prove that you actually know how to do chemical engineering before you go ... it. So whenever I end up having an interesting dream, I do one of two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  's okay if you're not a nationally recognized mathlete. If you do end up ... ? Jeanie queries: Does it matter if we do research things that are kind of ... , those topics have nothing to do with me. So hopefully, the admission

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006