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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft ... shaft. Each floor, with the exception of the two first floors, looks like ... back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  a side effect, though, I never really became involved with the math ... all be friends with each other or three of them will all be strangers. A ... said is true regardless of which people are friends with which other

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... with the GEL program. Well, since you asked, I attended the GEL Mentoring ... receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  classes. Gone are the formulaic problem sets and exams (with the exception of Economics - which functions like a science class, but with a better ... colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for ... speaking with a faculty member (who also served as a frosh adviser) earlier ... 9 am lecture; don't turn down an opportunity to chat with that cute

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  along with it. That's right, your comments actually affect what happens in ... . I made it reasonably far before Google Maps decided to mess with me ... yell (with a thick Boston accent) out his car window at another driver

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With ... to share with you as concisely as possible (although I really could go ... only with digital cameras, but that didn’t matter. As soon as I saw

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of the problem with Christianity today, in this speaker's view, is that ... declaring your faith. So you end up with a lot of people who say they ... brimming over with the effects of this phenomenon as it applies to all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  reason. Come up with somewhat of a plan, and you'll probably be fine. Some ... bring, how you’ll spend those last days with friends and family ... do anything you want, with unlimited time, no expectations, no SATs or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process ... went to school etc. Is MIT at all familiar with education systems in ... provide your teacher with a copy of Eval A or Eval B to fill out, or simply

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  sleep. (Note that this is possible only with recitations, which are ... less than a second. No paperwork, no irritating confrontations with raspy ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... affair with linguistics was born. The book discusses how language came to ... I'm sticking with what I know here, so I don't muck up the examples

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  work with my homework for a few hours on end. I got a lot of homework ... PCR and gel electrophoresis; I helped a little with a project to find ... to me. I loved my NIH job, and I happily worked overtime with no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  direction. He might even walk with you to your destination. (This only works with undergrads. Grad students, like slightly rabid cats, are a little ... , complete with any bacchanalian insanity your mind can even begin to imagine

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact ... did cheerleading, because I got to have fun with a great group of people ... 're interested in killing multiple birds with minimal stones and all that. Two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  submit pictures with my other essays... is it ok if I put in a web link in ... online. We do not always read applications with a web connection nearby ... EPGY on the Self-reported Courses form, along with any other non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  got pretty upset with him, as you can imagine. Here I was, totally ... very specific obstacle that I was faced with- one incident that happened ... really frustrated with everyone who kept telling me my essays sucked, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  daily burden and I often wanted to hit it with a sledge hammer since it ... , baby. 2)Large beds- College dorm rooms are all fitted with "extra long ... 4,050 sq. in. of plush mattress. Here, I get a squeaky 3,120, with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... with bad special effects (Friday the 13th). A good friend of mine (Katie ... with SAT scores that he knows mine better than I do), but they bother me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  day, the COVID Pass app got an update with the estimated wait. Last ... me with a plastic-wrapped swab. I head into a testing trailer. Two ... , the lab is great, and the UROP I worked with is great too! But it just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020