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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  worrying for my future... will I get into a good school? Can I get a job? Can ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  .  I tried to get help. It took 6 weeks for me just to see a ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I ... -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  for each side, and he said "yes, that's true" to both of them. He ... , and was just presenting it to Dumbledore for approval. "Write that," he ... As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama ... stage. So what principles did the Dalai Lama posit to anchor this new

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... engaging. Bonus: class participation involves a daytrip to New York City ... , I'm trying to tighten my culinary grasp in order to make new and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... states, which have not historically been as well-served by computer science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents ... to this, electronic test score records are sent to us by the testing ... is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  HST, and they seem to think it's great. As for your second question, yes, it would be okay for you to submit your alternate response as an ... consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for ... California, Downstate New York, and Toronto, though, for reasons I'll talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  ’t actually have to completely define us if we would only let go of them for a ... (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and ... My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... bought by saving for half the cost and having her parents chip in the rest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... on top of the Great Dome 13. Contribute to How to Get Around MIT 14

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming system for winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ; the latter is to raise money for leukemia research, and was started by ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... New York City this weekend, where I had an excellent time eating five

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving ... revisions for my writing class to do Wednesday, and on Thursday I had to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get ... , I’m not even shaken by needles anymore. I had to get eight shots

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think ... time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As ... back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  started to get healthier, I finally accepted that there was no feasible way ... definitely reinforced what I learned in 3.012. I am excited, however, to get ... of East Campus to help people get through finals! Associate Advising

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014