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• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... freely go and do my favorite outdoor activity! To be honest, I'm feeling ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as ... my head[/annotation] to win similar to Park, but the way she described

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  happened to be on a business trip to London so he decided to stop by. Anyway ... that come with being in a foreign country, like not knowing which way to ... Morecroft, started it up again. Except the Hong Kong club, which seems to be

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square ... going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  hatred will be temporary, and eventually you'll go back to loving the place ... for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students ... with a bat." -Christina '10 "It must be finals week!" -Ben Why am I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  applying to college now, you probably know what I mean. I remember being ... perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... obstacles3. Remember that you are applying to be part of a student body, not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be ... time at which a request was reviewed and responded to by a grader. Using ... (61%) resulted in points being added to my score, helping me achieve

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... brain to another: “When we're talking about something being an oral ... trying to avoid being alone than on trying to find people i liked

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  situated next to a beautiful new open space, and across the way from the ... option, by far, is to drive to campus. The traffic is very bad, the roads ... .g. Alewife, South Station, etc —  and ride in from there. In addition to being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  ’re hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you ... ways you won't be able to predict those differences. Maybe if you go ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... spines will tend to be more active. In a hand-waving way, spine density and ... neurotransmitter to be released. The packets of neurotransmitter travel across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  to get supplies for the trip. However, I also didn't want to be writing it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... awaits, we're supposed to go see some alligators in a swamp on the way

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... as a fun, competitive way to build tools that people would want. From ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  safer, more accurate cannon, which could be handled by just about anyone ... he'll be just fine. And I'll have a place to watch the (zombie) Bruins ... . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  mechanisms, when often the problem could be solved by just talking to people ... MIT. Here’s how we do things here—and, by the way, we’re so glad to have ... , who also happens to be MIT’s choir director, invites Concert Choir

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be ... when you're hungry, it can be irritating to smell hours later. Take out

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  I'm here today, accompanied by Tim's very hardworking cousin, to ... may be, before you press that button. In order to help ...  [email protected] and someone from our team will get back to you! Admissions decisions will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025