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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... students seemed to have a lot of control over their own lives. I liked that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... purpose of this list is to just let you know where else they are on the web

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... the night. On my way to the T, something *large* blew up near EC (that

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  time we got back to MacGregor, and captured on a non-cracked i ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... room several times before gently returning it to its original position on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  our lobby to have a frank discussion about safe sex practices and ... ! The perfect way to start any CPW morning. Surprisingly, it tastes a lot ... present. As it turns out, adults and teenagers are too large to ride on tiny

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to ... effortlessly through the high A's on "Thou Shalt Break Them." Go Jason Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her ... last name), I said as I swung back and forth on his hammock, “I have a 6

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... lot of stepping on and off of chairs. I didn’t really know how to set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with ... you would be a good addition to the MIT community. ECs know MIT, went to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... when, while working on the first problem set, I had a lightbulb moment on ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  produce stand to campus Anne Wilson, Campus Dining March 27, 2009 A ... from noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays in the East Campus Courtyard near Walker ... make the project a reality. "Ideally, we would like to see the student

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  pictures to grace our dorm walls. Not only is he an amazing lecturer, he's a wonderful, down to earth, person. Tune in next time for a life update! My ... Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012