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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... death sentence. #5 proved to be the low point of the day, even though the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... have to climb out of bed to turn it off. Intense hat from Russia Fall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  to you to deserve that kind of treatment? Have a friend read your ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... spoke to us a few weeks ago!"] A Cup of Water Under My Bed [/annotation ... ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... 're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about ... . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  rest of the bloggers decided to Sweep the Mines with our own hands and ... posted the first episode of Minesweeper Monday, which some have called "the most important piece of media in the 21st century," and which others have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... mechanics to explain in terms of current/voltage. But when viewed in terms of ... Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students ... myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... precious test time. 20.110 is designed to be graded out of 545 points: 100

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to an Oregonian best friend studying abroad in France. Lots of eggs ... blog posts as I wanted to make. I have little bursts of creativity ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those ... to Elder. A group of students was also going to lunch and reached the ... Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also ... 's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... supreme grand champion of the environment myself... ...I was excited to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until I get used to this "eating healthy food" BS. So I'm going to write

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to ... For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  out of their own pocket. So, a shoutout to them, and all the wonderful ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  la la la I'm going to read Interpreter of Maladies and then The ... DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I ... to step on your camera if you leave it there." "Okay, I'll put it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers With today's next post, I'll begin a summer-long occasional series introducing you to the MIT…

  

  introducing you to the Admissions Officers for the 2005-2006 school year. Some of us you already know through the blogs and other means. Some of the ... couple months; I think you'll like them. Today, you can meet the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of