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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you ... nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident ... intend to spend on the beach), followed by two days to shop and pack, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  film "Giant Leaps," produced for the Giant Leaps Symposium: It's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down ... never claim responsibility for hacks. Think about it- it really adds to ... name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  ! You're responsible! Be operator for a few hours!" So, now I get to feel ... , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... to explain that they needed some maps for a puzzle. This sort of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  . For more information, be sure to check out other posts from regular ... the results for the guide. The Living Pink Guide gets at the heart of ... lot of time there. With the latter, by asking for LGBTQ identity status

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... fail. Really. New opportunities will always arise for those who seek them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  There isn't a specific deadline for the interview. Students submit their application by November 1 for Early Action or January 6 for Regular Action. After you submit your application, you may be contacted by an
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend ... Waking up to a Cinco de Mayo band playing on Memorial Drive after getting ... numbers involved. You may know that most buildings are known better by

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  almost forgotten the incredible amount of work it took for me to get here ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... college applications or homework or grades, and I just get to exist. Like last night: my mom was out of town and I needed to get to my math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... cynical about the political activity of people my age by the time I came to ... might get to know them better.” Emerge aims to empower these girls

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... it would be really difficult to sit still for 8 hours (yes, the test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... those are terrible metrics by which to measure an applicant or an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for ... country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... piecing that world together. Today for AIRMUN, that means going to South

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  and only having the fortune to know them for a year--or two years, or ... , procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post ... my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... ..., by Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America. The book goes through

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself in black, belted cargo pants (which took forever to find, by the way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010