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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... have the wrong place. We try a different route, and I get my phone out to ... bubble I've been this semester. Lots of new faces. I talk to many of them

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... research headed by Dr. Robert Weinberg. It was interesting to know that our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the situation all wrong. I tried to make a second story by lofting a ... accumulate after your first three trips to Shaw’s (our local grocery store ... in your mouth. Beanbag When I first came to MIT I bought a butterfly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... made the jokes that will inevitably follow) Yes, sir. PIERCE: Your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... will be performed in January in New York. So, if anyone happens to be around New York during IAP and happens to hear of it, I’d highly recommend

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... 'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if ... you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  reading assignments? We will make a summary of your responses to the ... !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... announces that we're going to do a demo. "Snively, you're going to do this

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... lots of burgers around). I haven’t tried any yet but I’ll be sure to get ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... ’t told us about your EA plans, or for those who haven’t visited MyMIT to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your ... three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  to songs I know by heart, and much more often, music that I’ve never ... cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... that I missed dancing contemporary a lot! I love getting to be dramatic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  my apartment and introduced myself to people that lived close by. And ... in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning, went to my class, handed in my problem set, and went home and crashed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  already seen two new hacks - could there be more? I resolved to hunt around ... your decisions. By the way, I lost the game. ;) ... friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007