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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... of supplies to send to the rescuers at Ground Zero: socks, contact ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some ... culture, but not in the sense of knowing much about its history or being part of any sort of "tradition" within it, except maybe the politically

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a ... common than just their looks. They're also graduating at the top of their class as co-valedictorians. Out of 75 students graduating from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  MIT. Why do I listen to so many audiobooks? I think part of the reason ... dangerous situation, or the triumph of overcoming the impossible, or the rush ... arm’s breadth away is the perfect amount of distance for the human

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a ... activities midway of the San Francisco Bay Area. CAMBRIDGE FOLKS: I've got ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

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

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries ... at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... ; especially through the work of Lincoln Lab, we are engaged every day in keeping

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... over the holidays and is busily processing all of the application pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations ... hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT ... held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications ... descriptions of the food and drinks you make with your families around cultural

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to ... food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... hamper of laundry. The thought of transporting a bag of dirty clothing ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all ... . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... they have a ring of flat-screen monitors all around the stadium that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  ? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =) ... For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... additional lectures The World’s Numerical Recipe, The Origins of Mass and the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... , Boston Marathon! Speaking of which...Last year, I watched the marathon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006