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• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The ... specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions ... what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  another dream about the portabella mushroom burgers last night. I made a ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very ... not get to draw Beth R.F. '18 and Crystal W. '18 properly. Here they are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  the food processor, and you turn it back on. And you start to worry a ... for a while. You keep turning the food processor on, and then the fruit ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... bummed out anyways. pset 0, which was supposed to be a warmup, very nearly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  calling new students and chatting with them about MIT. I've participated in ... is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen ... able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... time away from reading applications to remind everyone on our homepage ... weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  began an adventure to find the highest spot on campus which was both ... best pic I got. Feel free to try to make your guesses. On ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  appliances on [annotation note="a mailing list to which most undergraduates are ... gluttonous delight of all. and so the semester comes to an end. a handful of ... comes to an end. my window, having been tormented by a semester’s worth of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person ... it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... The Colbert Report, just like a real college student! And so I did on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile ... was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005