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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... search for summer opportunities. That summer we traveled to Israel for our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a ... quick question to a nearby SIPB member, this was fixed. And "pony" was

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  effective stress-relief technique. Reason #5: You will never have to be late for anything again — you can just trot quickly to your destination ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... . We crowded by the elevators to hug him, and when he left, someone said ... ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18 ... exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.)
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... of a suitcase any more. Soon I’ll be on my way home to MIT, and ... still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  7th — June 11th I knew I wanted one thing, and that was to be by the ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on ... Steve Harvey. We were blessed to be watching a stream in which the ... , inviting: there are four different ways to produce light in her room. a ripe

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT students ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It's a pretty good gig, to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  . It should be a deep dive onto this topic. For my paper, I chose to ... ate a quick dinner at McCormick and headed to 2.009 presentations. 2 ... quick break and then sent the script over to some friends to edit. Then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... adviser. The advice you need to make good choices will be there if you look ... disclaimer to future harried applicants: MIT Admissions uses Facebook in no way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  /convenience store on the first floor of the Student Center. It tends to be quite ... 's a pretty sweet deal - and, to be honest, I think that I would have to ... during your interview) - if you want to be seriously involved in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... fruit in them need to go in the fridge, ginger needs to be stored

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for another day, maybe, though i think it might be a little self-indulgent to ... really like it--i'm content to be left alone most of the time, and i get to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  find a way to serve the MIT community. Not only will you meet amazing ... classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on ... while doing work or studying. Being able to type while reading on a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  encounters his father on his journeys, only to be let down by his father's self ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... expectations, where characters would show up that I would think to be evil or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to ... /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005