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• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so panicked about receiving my admissions decision that I may or may not have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long-overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... heartbreaking stories. I had originally planned to publish one to three pieces, but there were just so many great responses that I have published seven

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  Term's over. Almost. I've always felt that term wasn't truly over until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that ... years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens. Somewhere in between kindergarten and senior year, I realized that dance was

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT. This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... option is to order in every night (I actually tried this) Monday: Papa

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for

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

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... day requiring some comfort food at the end. I haven't been to Star ... -shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 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…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which means that I am writing entries about what it's like to be an MIT student even though I don't actually go there yet. If you think that makes me

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

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was ... on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... wrote, "Just a quick question. When I print preview the MIT application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 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 where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some ... exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I

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

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025