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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... redoing problems about them over and over. I wouldn’t get frustrated at the ... of my seat with excitement at the latest chemistry breakthrough. Those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  together and then sleep at last. After a walk past the rosy river that lasted ... . Then a second glance at the clock proved me wrong by twelve hours, and I ... savory teriyaki chicken, gazed longingly at adorable novelty items, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  fall (after spending the summer at home), to make sure that I wasn’t just ... at the same time, it’s been a really amazing thing to have all these ... without p-sets. Spoiler alert: I don't. And at this point it all goes to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  pundits so easily at their own game) "Romney was an interesting experiment in what happens if you have no long term consistency at all in your ... consulting job to go analyze baseball? A: "Well, most of my income at the time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm, cook with my team-mates, serve dinner at 6:15pm sharp, eat, then clean up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... me. I wasn't at MIT: I was one of twentysome fresh MIT students ... plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... . Kateryna Makova. After a year in the Makova lab at Penn State I returned to the same field at MIT, where I’ve been working as a UROP at the Page lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... bedrooms with my brother at one point so I could paint a mural on a larger ... at my desk. The main problem aside from the inefficient space use and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... against the bus stop, dreadlocks, staring straight at me. There was no doubt

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... studying at my own pace. Most people who I've talked to have said that test ... materials. If you're good at self-studying, however, and have access to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  facts here. People at MIT may make a lot of robots here, and there may be ... webcast hosts for Chesapeake said last night. That's why people look at ... obsession with pizza, and that my math professor is quite skilled at drawing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  are then sent out to at least one of 57 Regionals across the world. Then, at Regionals, they'll compete against a field of dozens for the chance ... , and beneficent duress. Perhaps that's why - as Woodie said at Kickoff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  unless there's a predicted payoff of at least $10, with exceptions for ... to my misery. It was rhythmic. I woke up every morning at 7 am dressed ... the string become rays of light propagating through space at 3*10^8 m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -quality produce. I left early and arrived at the grocery store just as an employee was stocking the shelves with grapes ludicrously priced at 88 cents a pound. I'm sure CMS.100 is a worthwhile class, but grapes at 88 cents

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... featured side-by-side in Japanese culture. The shrine at Heian jingu was ... yell this while banging on the table at Japanese restaurants.) We ended

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... all make hand turkeys, draw turkeys, or photoshop turkeys to shoot at ... the action down at the duck-shooting area. You see, we have this little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated ... , and you'll have wasted a rare opportunity in life at a trial run. Put

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  even dining options at MIT. Some students prefer to cook their own meals ... accordingly at this time. So, up I walked the stairs like Alice into a greasy ... rock on the outside of a meteor entering at 70 km/s. Conventionally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  , taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned ... succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , like the first one, everybody else at my table did fine. I didn't. 20 ... had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008