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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... procrastination. I take a moment to pull myself together before slipping into a ... . I still feel like when I wake up tomorrow morning to start a new day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... , lying as if it'd been mugged by a gang of unrepentant hardwood tables in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  HARDBALL. Ask current students anything, and you'll be able to get a good ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride! I also did a lot of hair dyeing over the past few days, here are some ... East Side and prefrosh (now frosh!?!?)  from all around MIT came to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  : Where did all the glorious IAP time go? This seems to be a popular ... just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I ... mulberry trees in a little park-like setting right next to an industrial

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  underprivileged students. He eventually plans to pursue a doctorate in biological ... treatment of diseases. This past summer, Gethers sought a way to continue ... clearly dedicated to public service." Gethers has engaged in a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side dorms (assuming Hurricane Irene doesn't get us first).  Freshmen will

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to ... A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received over 50 applications for four spots. Over the last week and a half the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... these systems; for instance, to stimulate thinking or to provide a variety ... critical thought to constitute almost all of a typical college essay. Our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

    Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... -digit decimal figure. How anticlimactic. This last semester passed by in a flash

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... : I'm gonna teach a class! So basically, I was kind of disappointed by

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let ... floor to our room. Built as a double-loft, this imposing structure ... 't feel the need to close the door when you napped and could always find a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... minutes later, a wonderfully carbonated feeling began to bubble up inside me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  Spring with your housemates in a pristine, remote locale untouched by the ... . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a ... humming a requiem for trans fat. With deft precision honed by years of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  CourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... by... a professor?!? Yes, Prof. Maria Zuber, a planetary geophysicist ... stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004