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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each ... importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the ... goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... 'm establishing what success means to me on a day by day basis. Some days finishing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  feels a little like this right now (mouse over): I’m trying to take on ... classroom on campus, a small room in Building Four within hearing distance of ... , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  MIT has an experimental new video podcast called ZigZag. Currently four episodes into its trial run, "ZigZag is a periodic video magazine ... ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... everything. ben&ben has a song called branches, and when i listen to it i ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... contact, ignored our suggestions, and refused to participate. A couple ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  ’m okay, this is how i’m trying to sort out my thoughts. typing words on a ... a few flat words on a screen. marvel at this fact. and then talk to ... she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  and a promising new test based on CRISPR  This is an unprecedented time ... disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... evaluate each application.  In a blog post on COVID from early March, we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  to other bloggers']a run[/annotation]on Election Day, which was when ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment"]a ... late, refreshing the New York Times election tracker, attempting to work

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  had to look it up on a map. I also tend to know nothing about geography ... contest to be last. That should be a new one for you guys. ... fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... , directs the train to a different rail, which happens to have one person on ... patient involves introducing a new threat to him, whereas pulling the switch

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Wiesner as a corner to make phone calls, have lunch and leave trash on the ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... around to working on this exhibit until the last two weeks of January

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New ... hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  strongly worded email to the landlord. I splash a lot of water on my face ... went back to Reffen market. I wandered the streets with a new friend ... going to come home with half a novel written, this time.   June 4th

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  's still just a requirement. On the other hand, I got to pick whatever I ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... allowed to discuss calls we've been on. That won't be hard- there weren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  in Italy and Germany? Physics! In Italy I taught a unit on waves and interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: "I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on MyMIT - what's going on?!" "My teacher said she sent my eval A in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry ... In response to this blog entry: (As a reminder) Don't hesitate to ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006