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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  and surrounded by farms and forest. My extracurriculars shifted to ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been ... 'll try to post (or more likely, tweet) to share with you all. Today, this

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  this by yourself, though I wouldn't put it past an MIT applicant to ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they tested our ability to give presentations by asking us to design our own ... complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  getting the chance made me all the more determined to actually make ... like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... would also like to add to that list of "rest of the night" activities by

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... to get into MIT for graduate school. Departments which don't accept MIT ... which are none too shabby, I'll tell you that much: you'll be able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight turnaround to meet the timeline. We quickly encountered delays, however, and by ... disappointed by their stock. It took a surprisingly long time to actually pick

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM: Conduct first-hand research on the process by which humans die by freezing. Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  after I flew back to Boston). I was surprised by this, since my fiction ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... gratitude gets overlooked. There have been many moments where I felt

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit, then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... ; (Fun fact: if you air this grievance on Facebook, you will get a couple

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019