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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family ... , including linguistics and fiction reading -- and plans to study immunology. Of ... Isaacson. Add to that list Melis Anahtar, MIT senior, Mechanical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi ... , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to ... shivering as i walked from the shower to the pool. of all the classes i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  front of my mental eye as I plowed through my task; I tried my best to ... arrests but that none of us knew how to revive a dead ambulance. So we ... and all that, but sometimes, I'd love to drive to class instead of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you ... In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... changes), and lpq (to check printer status)). All of the other times I spent

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a ... to all the hype I have heard from every other person on the face of the ... found out that I was going to be lighting the candles on one of their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  of the community and ensure the upkeep of tradition for years to come ... , because instead of seeking an outside community with which to bond, they ... you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... wrote tens of thousands of words, and yet have nothing to show for it. I ... I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  you. You still need to separately take care of yourself, your social ... I’m now realizing." So true of sophomore year. 6:00 → Time to make ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created ... , expecting a different type of entry and wanting to know more and more about

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to ... campus police alike. He has come to serve as the de facto guardian of Lobby ... each week to meetings of the MIT Juggling Club, which does not possess

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... people happy to add you to the list of students attending FYE! One minute

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  fan of Quinton McArthur - he wasn't able to meet him last year, so this ... . g) Then we drove to Provincetown, which is at the very far tip of Cape ... ... ....so you can say that you made it all the way to the tip of Cape Cod. h

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012