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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  actually enjoyed doing it, despite the very obvious fact that I spent all night doing it because it's due tomorrow. Although I have to admit I think ... . Things really do move fast at MIT. It's like the Reuse mailing list, which

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also ... chance to do anything for my UROP. But on the whole, it's the same because ... 'm doing different things, meeting new people, and just doing things that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  (bad bad bad - don't do this at home, kids). Then my friend Ashley suggested that I do seven things to commemorate this fortuitous day. "Like ... movies and actually discussing what I should do for my birthday, it was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet ... cannot change it. Do you really want to answer to "hotdog88" in three years ... applications. Do you really want a future employer to know you as smrty_88? Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  stints at CTY. What am I to do? I was going to MIT. At that point, my mind was made up, so there wasn't really anything else I could do. August 22 ... conditioning? what a crime. so i do a little travelling about the campus and do

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  occurrence (where do these occurrences come from? I'm the most ridiculous ... ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... said "hey, I want to do this for my college application". Look for things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  'll hopefully have the time and energy to do so. Pre-orientation (I did Freshman ... with all of your friends, do your problem sets as a group, and most of ... : Electricity and Magnetism (do they still have Teal classes?) - 5.111: General

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  do you mean, 'good morning'? Do you mean that it is a good morning for you, or do you wish me a good morning, although it is obvious I'm not having one, or do you find that mornings in general are good? BEN: All of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks ... every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  lab doing some sort of cutting-edge, uber exciting research. I love the ... . And not only do we have it, we have a group of super dedicated students ... cheerleaders can do Fourier series and Laplace transforms. Boo ya. We're nerds

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  to MIT as well, as a backup to the courier messing up???" We do require ... , "I love MIT, but I do have 2 questions. [1] How accessible are the ... attention, what can you turn to? [2] Also, do MIT students tend to be pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... and a nice chunk of money to do with it what they wish. My entry, for ... wastes time. (Some people do their homework in the lounge too... I've never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'm already well on track, huh?). Postdocs in academia do not make very much ... all the publications that come out of your lab. People do not usually ... ... ;) Answers to questions: 1. Timur accused me of being superhuman, which I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... we have kids, although I'd like a boy. I'll do a lot of cooking to save ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... there are any questions. Do you know if the AdComm has ever actually ... who are doing the application reading. What about the rest? Who else is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... what they do, technically capable, but don’t have dreams of their own ... possibly do enough with so little space. My life is too short to change the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... write comments about how students were doing and what they were learning

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  competent course staff. Would recommend. You basically do low-level hacking ... able to compute and do the math than the physical ideas, so I decided to ... really complicated! Once you've formalized these notions, how do you prove

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  walk all the way back to MIT… which I indeed ended up doing because the ... . Listening to music was one of the few things I could do to distract myself ... those policies do not allow excused absences because [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024