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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... , interrupted occasionally by a row of houses or some other sign of civilization

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... 't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... Sapolsky's books A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  get from A to B. The team also made augmented reality animations and an ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we ... drove up to help us clean our room (a dumpster at the time), and to bring

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... for admission to the Class of 2012! By the time I graduate, I will have

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  flight because you really want to buy these clothes Get a gate change ... ™,[/annotation] here's my advice: Get to the airport so early that you learn that you ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at ... building up to Idina Menzel's huge belts gave us a greater than life feeling

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... "...woops, wrong HAL. Anyway, let's get back to the Fourth. Two years ago, my ... , separating it from Boston). We got there early enough to have a great view of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By ... — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  coming year: get more rest. I pushed back a lot of responsibilities to ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of ... ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to understand the answer, it's necessary to understand a little more about dining

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... 're wearing them. They just get stiffer and stiffer. By the time we got to the ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... 't. And you get to pick to which group you belong. If you don't want to be someone who can't talk to people and who only sticks her nose in a book

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  ASAP, we decided to take the ferry over instead of getting there by foot ... ’re trying to get a [annotation note='not that you will get it, since sleeping ... . Waking up to that after a long night of fitful sleep, being surrounded by

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019