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• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  a Thursday morning in 2007 seems to be a juicy, cooked-to ... to only one college (to be honest, I estimated that my chances of being ... chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  phase, and was so awestruck by the movies that I instantly wanted to find ... it. By the end of my final year, I had enough of the pieces to begin ... ’ situation. I was awestruck by how she talked about them the same way she could

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  way i'm trudging along this semester feels like i'm being forced to take ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  ...) soon. Weee, summer! Anyway, I know last weekend was supposed to be the ... inspiring people to speak (I mean, they MUST be cool, they all have wikipedia ... weekend. 2. APDA Nationals are being hosted here by the MIT Debate Team

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  interest which sparked my decision to pursue STEM in the first place: CS. By ... for someone who wants to be a CS major. I’m taking [annotation note ... bad way? Okay, it drives me nuts in that everybody I seem to meet says

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  rediscovered my love of reading! being confronted by the stacks upon stacks of ... listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, but ... , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  mega-sale, so it cost like $15 =p...by the way I'm such good friends with ... sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... 're specially chosen, and lucky to be there. -Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Laureate

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  'd really begun to feel the cold. I was no longer warmed by being sweaty or ... supposed to be legen - wait for it - dary. Awe-inspiring. Epic. Life ... cost me my firstborn. Fuji may be a rather strenuous mountain to hike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... application [link] to be a member of the community. You will see that we are ... the process will be very selective, many of you will want or need to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get a free high-five. Good times will be had by all. If you happen to ... go last year, so I'll be running around pretending I'm trying to decide ... knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to ... . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day ... video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I reset my password?

  correctly, you will be sent an email with a temporary PIN that you will use to ... No worries! You can unlock your account and reset your password by clicking, “Forgot your password?” You need the email address you used to
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  about project classes? These tend to be more varied, depending on the ... structure's looser here, but it's going to be something like that. Or maybe ... happening now, by the way, and what inspired this post."] midterm season

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  necessarily intended to be generalized, everything should be fine.) After ... "]psychoanalysis,[/annotation] these issues stem from an inability to be assertive the correct amount at the correct times in the correct ways. As I dug down to [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  ). The Midyear Report is to be completed by you, the applicant. The MIT ... Application schools. The MIT Midyear Report is to be filled out by you, the ... your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... -distance. Luckily Ami is a physicist and her hat is science-magical and they got to be ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  the way there, we stopped at the North End playground to do some physics ... , followed by ice cream at the famous Mike's Pastries. We tried to walk off the ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  is designed to be super energy-efficient and requires 67% less energy ... break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006