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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  on Sunday and immediately knew that this was a day of unusuality. The ... willows echo the curves of smoothly arching bridges and cyclists have the ... sunbathers sprawled supine like sardines on a plate, over the stone bridge and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and ... life. And packing. I was terrified of packing then. I met a graduate of

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

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the ... and immediately broke into a deadly rash? Ha ha ha.” McGreevy sort of ... for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... hole); CSAIL presentations on developing new microprocessors and robots

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and ... exhausted with the "glam" life and retired to the mountains of South Carolina ... Brelinsky '06 (EE) was an active member of the Dormitory Council and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  : under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael ... over. The guest bedroom has a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Raphael hid in the biggest one, on top of the bed. Heroically maintaining a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork ... bible, and Tobira stacked on top of it, a Japanese textbook. I've been ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  popular Minecraft YouTubers, place them on teams of 4, and have them compete ... Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  Organization) and focus part of her blogging on the work that MIT is doing ... , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of ... not only education, but life right - and you should be really proud of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I ... legends of extraordinary Reuse scores, and tales of Reuse gone wrong, but

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  thinking much of it. But now, on the cusp of turning 20 and having rewatched ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of ... narrative effect of Zuko fighting an infection is such a clever and beautiful

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  one side of Lobby 10 and the odds on the other. The Student Center had ... I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... . There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  . As the artery which connects most of the main academic and ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the ... future. A future where some of the world's best and brightest students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two ... opened, startup co-working space, and every single brother of Phi Kappa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save ... found the slice of cake in the kitchen the next morning, and decided to ... room to find a slice of chocolate cake that literally had my name on it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime ... modern corporate environment of Japan, and sending two hundred and four

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  total of 22 times, alongside my teammates Daniel A. '21 and Antonio B. '22 ... climb on the team scoresheet. We then took our pick of the water, Gatorade ... got tired and decided to take two breaks each climb – first on the 7th

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019