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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  , during my first semester, I ended up not using any of the them. The Subway ... watched ads on and the surveys I took earned me a total of about two dollars ... approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being ... them, somewhere, and that many people have their side of the story yet to ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I ... departments are tiny, I will now get twice the company. Oh, and the office of Course 24 - Linguistics and Philosophy is on the top two floors of Stata

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... and some kind of delicious candy, Kosher for Passover. To tell you the ... : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... the words of bloggers past and present, guiding his every footstep. “The ... gathered all of the remaining nerve that coursed through his soul and

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  unicorns, dragons, and fairies exist. After the first three weeks, the honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  options one and two. They accounted for 29.23% of the EA applicants. That ... radio. It was drizzling. I parked facing the forest and turned my ... . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  encourage initiative, to promote the spirit of free and objective inquiry, to ... MIT undergrads, and they eventually became the first team of all Black ... first year that was produced by the task force...and resulted in sort of a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my grade for the second midterm. cue instant panic and regret mode...and let ... , raced through the Peggles, and played so many hours of Mario-Kart one day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  and every one of the possible meanings. The four or five months from ... —unlike most people, I live within 50 minutes of the domes—and registration ... amount of cheating took place in the third game. Lasting over an hour and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... thrive in and contribute something important to the community of MIT ... , thank you to all of the parents out there, and I hope you'll say a quick

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... the basics of cybersecurity, and losing out on millions of dollars by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors ... Sidney Street, the location of the ubiquitous Star Market and the Hotel ... around the liftgates of pickup trucks and sport-utes. I got an older

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... mostly the Asian and Indian kids). They thought I was some sort of god ... university, and win at the ISEF international level. Notice how I had none of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  from my advisor and the professor of the class, and filling out ... -afternoon classes and have perfected the skill of biking while holding a phone and an ... ) The Harvard course website has really good integration of videotaped

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this ... materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... that I mention that a lot of these facilities and fields are open to the ... I visit the swimming pool first. The women's swimming and diving team

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... 's problem, the nativism/empiricism debate, and the limits of consciousness ... heads around it on the first day. Surprisingly, the concept and its

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011