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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... stressed out too, but I have always used blagging as a study break anyway (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... a seat. Of course, for Jasmine and I, really early actually meant so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... half an hour before our first class - sorry, ESP admins) and received a hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... pet frogs and a powerpoint presentation. This year I'm sharing with you ... opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... , every student armed with an alpha particle (ping pong ball) pelted a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... with life, how in less than a month I will once again be reunited with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... ) 9.09/7.29 - Cellular Neurobiology Supposedly a chill class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Based on a language model we use a context to improve Google Search Result The host: I worked in a small software engineering team that are ... variety of food, not too terribly crowded and close to a number of beautiful

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  lounge. The highest bidder named Destiny after his daughter. Destiny as a ... a ghost, two fridges have been nommed, and the exit sign is breeding ... right— Phillip ’15, hiding behind the Cheez-Its. Phillip is a freshman on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... advice. Case in point--there was a parent of a fourth grader (that's right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... fellowships.  I took the GRE a few weeks ago, which though not necesarily

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2:30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  had a stress-free beginning to summer. :) Picture-time~ My ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... ’s Tsinghua University. So when I arrived in Beijing, everything got just a tad

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough ... early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... 'm practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking ... gridiron football - amidst a growing body of evidence that football causes ... are many reasons, reasons too complex to discuss in a PhD dissertation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  peace with wherever I'd end up, and then opened a rather unexpected letter ... feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... do great things and you are going to have a wonderful college

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011