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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard ... to get on a reality show? However, Sam's Mom convinced us that this ... togetherness more than one million dollars, so we decided not to get there until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... at MIT happens more often than some people do laundry. Best to get it ... you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... has decided to get one (ahem, Chris) and everybody I've talked to who has one loves it. Ta-ta for now, I'm getting back to doing nothing

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -- whatever ... and when they get here, they feel an immense need to release ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  and feet. Cracked decided to promote clean streets and recycling by ... . Traditionally, all visiting artists get a tour of MIT by CAVS staff, however ... Cracked has begun to host monthly workshops taught by members. We had a

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... somewhere dry or else it gets a really weird color to it, etc. 8. Trash bags ... get too tired to cook or order out eventually. It's surprisingly good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  to get to know the real you. And definitely schedule the interview ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr. Neighbours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  and get to know your fellow classmates? So please consider your memory ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... effects of aneuploidy, say by inducing further energy stress, to eliminate ... that!! Needless to say, I was pretty excited by the end of the talk

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... actually brainstorm all the logistics behind getting the sign up. So to do ... have sizing restrictions so we ended up just getting four 12x24 sheets to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... cardiac arrest by more than 50% - and many who need CPR don't get it. MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia ... guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... the whole ordeal was the 25 hour odyssey it took to get from my hotel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night ... that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... way of reminding myself that I need to start getting them too. GET TO ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing ... get smarter. Everyone starts off bad." I want to only do things that I ... puzzles. With chess puzzles, you just get preset boards and are meant to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020