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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  was in got lost on the way there, so by the time we parked, the other groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... - let me tell you, there's no shortage of adventures to be had around here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... way to burn out, and is probably a sign that you have been poorly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... group of friends and I went to Singing Beach by Manchester-by-the-Sea (yes ... was work to be done! I went to a meeting for the IAB, the Industry

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston ... 't always a way to solve for x. What I also know is that I could have this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  to spray-painting. Spray paint with stencils, by the way, is possibly ... give in to the hype that males aren't allowed to enjoy things that may be ... . I also wanted the costume to be comfortable and fairly practical, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  to be wearing it the wrong way. The symbolism of my brass rat ... undergraduates to flip their brass rats around and wear them the other way: while ... world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  worth it to be in the presence of so many bright and thoughtful people on ... happens to be one of my mom's favorite artists, and she was just about ... dream that something like this could ever happen, or that I'd be able to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more ... brainstormed. How was the class to be structured? How do you explain all of the ... ways, being an instructor helped me not only appreciate ALL of my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to McCormick at about 11:45 pm, naively thinking that I would be in bed by 1 am at ... : My friends and I were among the first to arrive at Milan; not being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , which gives "MIT students the opportunity to learn about ways that they ... some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test, but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  eagerly got out of the car only to be struck by another "Holy shit we ... come out with us to Consume the Meat. "This would be my second time ... way through the parking lot to Ocean State Job Lots, which basically was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will ... ’t,” says Mr Nelson. ... The plan is for admission standards to be higher

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of ... would have to create a module based on this paper by writing introductory ... Corridor), I ran into George, who just so happened to be meeting with Prof

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... materials works in the same way. We encourage you to have your school use ... documents to us. All teacher letters must be typed or written on official

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into ... of the main city. Along the way, we passed by a beautiful mosque and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ... tracking your application checklist, which will now be turned off. ella: to check your decisions, DO NOT listen to Vienna by Billy Joel immediately

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  other option.  My cousin is studying to be a lawyer. There are other ways ... the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... way one could prove. The professor seemed to be trying to encapsulate

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  gone by. Sometimes, you just have to perform. As I make my way through ... believed that there was a way to live [annotation note="I've dropped two full ... !"]where I could be kind to myself,[/annotation] in addition to being kind to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  is very little pressure here to look one way or another. That being said, I think no matter how much you like to look good, there will be at ... thing we created. It's quite difficult to visualize my invention only by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008