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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... whateve you want on top, like a sundress or glitter shorts (above). Then you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... 't need to send us money to hold your place. If you're still on the fence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  some wear on the back netting. So, I basically got a brand new backpack ... lit on cloudy days or evening exams, so it’s a lot easier to simply see ... -out on hand as well. Bottom Pocket From left to right: Origins “Make a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  choke on dust. The next day, to a different coworker, I said, whatever ... be safe; and trying to have a good time anyway.  That isn’t a new ... sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  book too. (There used to be a website where MIT students bought and sold ... I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  several reasons, such as: I was too busy with classes to spend a day at ... ”."]RMV[/annotation] dealing with the paperwork. Massachusetts requires you to use a friend ... school to use their car for the road test. A US license (with REAL ID) also

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on ... the MIT website. That question does not reflect well on a sense of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  money! (1/17 - 1/19) I decided to make a stop in New York City after ... the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... and earth science, so it was refreshing to take a break from math and CS

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... -- approximately 2.9% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on ... transition to the new learning environment as quickly without them! 3. The

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  compared that to a marmoset and other animals on their own ipads ... how they worked and made a design for new “wings” to add to the robot ... our hero! He went on to do projects for a diving company after college

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an ... 's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  (similar to Bitcoin, which also runs on the blockchain platform). A physical ... related to a particular project occurs on the blockchain, there will always ... and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a ... finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  fortress at Barad-Dur is rebuilt on the land of 10-250. The Exam yearns to go ... ! Anyway, so, uh, last Saturday? my floor decided it would be a good idea to ... request a total of $3300 to plan trips with one another. It's a way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... , a lot of the problems I worked on this week had real life applications ... transfer into a greenhouse in my 2.005 exam, there was a lecture in New House

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... 36 minutes, so you might as well take a quick excursion to the polisci ... !!!” It’s kind of a walk from Stata to McCormick, but McCormick is on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  (SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  explosions. I was on call with Daniel one day to go over a [annotation note ... A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020