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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... to America to live with my parents. I'd left everything behind but a ... interests. I guess I had a lot on my mind. I like to write, but this is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around ... guide curious students to available services. As Laura, a blogger alum ... of LGBT Services and a strong advocate of the campaign, talked to me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... has helped a little. Aditya is right, it's hard to get straight answers ... 't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And ... college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  of Me Song: Past Life, by Jules Paymer There are a lot of parts to me ... can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  , and so I would have to cram work into the corners to get it done by ... , with a break for lunch. In the morning, I managed to get some work ... stopped by Target to buy some snacks for the marathon walk. I ate a few

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly ... the Red and Orange Lines to Chinatown Station and then walked a couple

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an ... 'm trying not to get my hopes up. But dang. So anyway, a list of some of the ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his ... -vehn-se-nup' But given that science likes to redefine itself every so often, it may

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  to the codebase has to be checked by at least one engineer, who has a ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in ... ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , I wanted to try a new route for getting there. Instead of walking ... make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... into a sophisticated machine designed to verify that they weren't size ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... about hacking at MIT." Julie: "I've been looking to write a musical! If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  a little fancy, get a New York strip steak (by the way - the meal plan ... to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... around 20 minutes total a day to cook dinner and clean dishes.  That means

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by ... your head...but it's a good one!) To find out more about the Logs

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  not a great way to try and determine their sexuality, but I am by no ... relate to my experiences as a wildly emotional gay boy who thinks too much ... getting married to that person, having kids with that person, getting old

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  . You WON’T be penalized if the report doesn’t get to us by Nov. 1. But ... high. (Last week, we were getting over a hundred emails a day…) While you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  get a second chance, there isn't an advantage to applying early. If ... can to get more comfortable with MIT. Don't go and perform a tap ... , sorry RA, more incentive to apply early) get a tube in the mail that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008