Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . Breathlessly, I looked down: it floats! Like, on top of water and everything! And

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  , quite late, I was working on a PSET with Michelle '11 and Jon '11 (both of ... at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  student on the #9 bus (again, meeting new people = the best), who ends up ... blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to ... years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  System, clear my inboxes, and check off things urgent on my todo list. Of course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke ... been before, as a frequenter of [annotation note="the other libraries on ... time working with css (outside of, like, designing post templates on old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and ... . Nor have weekly deadlines. Instead, every day, I have new readings on new subjects. “Essay season” replaces “midterm season.” Instead of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  class on thursday, but there isn't that same sort of confused despair that ... from experiments, and i could just focus on doing things. this past week ... on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... Baal'? No thanks, I’ll be soaring on the wings of eagles, chief ... :45a AM on Tuesday. I woke up freaking out, I changed fast, woke up my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... New England Football Conference crown and were selected for the 2014 ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  suspended. * Mike Tyson crashing his $183,000 Bently on Varick Street in New ... * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs ... . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I ... name of the dorm superimposed on a brick wall (every room in Baker has ... now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... , except on substack instead of the mit admissions blog. i think when i was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your

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

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike ... a museum of home. The first thing I notice is an MIT flag on the wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Konnecting Souls Franck II Louise Company Hip-Hop and New Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Boston A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on ... words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... those of you who are familiar with how saber fencing works, it’s very fast

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  . 14. Woken up at 2:00 p.m. (new record!) 15. Made .001% progress on my ... , after my final on Thursday, I'm headed to New Hampshire/Canada to ... a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009