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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up-the ... can consider the scale to be logarithmic.) The first sign of impending ... the conversation shoeless and uncertain of my understanding of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet ... smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  dimensions of personality (the hosts fill out info about themselves, and you ... host realized that I was very scared of being in the city by myself and ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be ... (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey."]Dear {{FIRST

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So ... forth, '10 applicants, and best of luck! ----------- (My sincerest ... of my essays were within word limits, and yeah, it wasn't great to cut

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  ) and (second) a debate about who makes the best coffee in general ... Mountain at the Building 4 Cafe (and soon DD). We seem to rotate between them ... The Tech announced yesterday that Anna's Taqueria will be getting a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  Tuesday afternoon: And then, the competition!: It’s a bit of a stretch ... … and promptly fell asleep in the process of setting my alarm.  When I ... .  Stumbling around the room, I grabbed a pair of shoes and my backpack and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered ... , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time ... exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action ... monitor the tracking system and make sure we have your application materials

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  it up and found a letter on Mr. Potato Head letterhead. The first ... , presented the concept, and built a model of it. Using everybody's models and ... . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... , and the environment). I will drop two of these. I promise. (I do not ... today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  minds. Well, let’s have a tour of the clean, organized and happy version ... Plan. B. I like that these pictures are some of the first things I see when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  .0002[/annotation] pset and turned it in without passing all of the tests. The thing ... requirement for many of the classes I wanted to take, and as much as the content ... weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  't learned any of the material that it covers, you have to go to lecture first ... of the week and throw you all off balance. Kinda like taking a shape ... are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and much more. And let's not forget the value of simply chilling ... feeling the pain appropriately). And even beyond the classroom, MIT students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can ... long stretch of road that connects many of the sleepy and dusty rural ... bumpkin, being easily impressed with all the sights and sounds of the big

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an ... , and consumed something on the order of 5-10 each. It was a fabulous mood

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012