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• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  money as possible.   out of curiosity, i click on my November bullet ... .   on a happier note, one positive aspect of my otherwise hellish ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  time, was running on a diet of 99 cent chili cheese french fry burritos ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  time on it? No! They’re asking us to do all of these things and we don ... ’s on vacation, so you’re kind of just floating.  You’re working for the ... first place. Are you still on board? Anxiety: I don’t have much of a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... best a collection of observations. [caption id="attachment_96309" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I have to do between now and the end of the semester. Lately, this last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our ... Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... group of girls clustered together, gossiping happily, oblivious to our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes ... May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals ... all of your applications. As we began Selection Committee I was

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... awake because of content. 11am - noon Next is biochem II (5.08). It's co

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for the science, there are still a lot of critiques on the Big 5 or five ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  journey. This post is scheduled to go up on the day of the 2021 Virtual ... , thank you for the most amazing of memories and for going on this crazy ... The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos ... pile of junk in Building 1 that he heard about on Reuse. 11:55 -- Jeremy ... I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  itself focuses primarily on the computation aspect of the course- teaching ... ’m also taking a class on the history of science (STS.003), although for ... Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... to not only ways I can cause change on a large scale, but also within myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013