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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  essay, pin them to the clothes line, and construct his essay by physically ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the ... by November 1, MIT will consider your application for Early Action. At
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct us? Woman: Oh, you're trying to get to the festival! Me: Yes! Woman: Oh ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  like tickets to events or food from class fundraisers, or do your laundry ... stays as money in your account. While not entirely necessary to survive ... me. I don't register my money situation until I get to the cash

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be ... and gusty wind, pray your brisk Winter's walk allows a speedy arrival to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... perfect, there were cool streams of glacier water to splash on your sweaty ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  to your field -- spending time on an extracurricular sort of means you didn't spend that time in lab. But you're welcome to submit that ... efficient way to get into a lab. 6. In response to my entry on Adam's and my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  through to get where they are today, but there’s something about the phrase ... telling you to explore science or chase your dreams would be like preaching to the choir, but you never know whose lives you all can change by

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  by the sometimes not-so-friendly college competition to attend as many ... learn to motivate and support your understanding. Furthermore, whereas there is plenty of room at MIT to be intimidated by the freshman taking

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  Hampshire and Vermont, them being right next to each other and all. New ... decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes, all said by longtime professor Arthur Mattuck. (He's been teaching here

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  blogger to learn to swim (you’re welcome).  The day after I got to campus ... get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high school students in an original, new, one-hour unscripted series that will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with ... drafting dots! Drafting dots, by the way, are used to mildly tape down

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  ! Bad Ideas PINEAPPLES! To find out what I mean, you're just going to ... Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... -time in my "rotation" lab -- you get to rotate through as many labs as you need to decide which lab you'd like to do your thesis project in. There

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because ... , put on your red shoes, and dance the blues. Every year by 1 AM, everyone ... a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  by day it only gets harder and harder to focus and ignore the ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you're ... hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that ... . "The path to success doesn't open by eliminating failure. If you want to ... to eat shit when it does get served so I can move on and work towards

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023