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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  hand in anything with words in, on and/or around it that leaves the ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... with Google's directive of "Don't be evil." It's a refreshing honesty

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  —I landed a summer internship with Google, got two A+’s in classes I had ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  a high thrill rollercoaster, just go onto google and type in, “MIT ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a ... "oh wow I'm so full". Go to [annotation note="On-campus grocery store in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... Commonwealth Ave"]Cafe 472[/annotation] calzones and ate them all in one sitting ...  formals: Bombergiving, a Thanksgiving formal my floor throws, Mocha Formal, in which Mocha

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  winter sun (California) I was stuck inside, held hostage to what Google ... sneezed in your lifetime! Some people also have experienced instances of ... times in a single minute! This type of sneezing is dangerous, especially

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I ... 't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  . And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  's relentlessly positive attitude towards everything in life no doubt helped him earn his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. It also might have helped ... to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  see him play. I had taught DeRon Artificial Intelligence in 6.034 when ... emerging story of his amazing record. DeRon showed up regularly in class ... had driven seven hours or so from their home in the small town of Galax

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order, one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped ... way. i’ve found that memories don’t often fall in orderly queues aligned

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current ... meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008