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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  that I had to get off the bike and sit on the ground. My legs hurt, my ... , then said "let's get back on the bikes." So, we got back on the bikes ... 's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  seemed to showcase this idea of demonstrating your artistic creativity with ... physically building things. Even though I would love to learn how to construct ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... 't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... personal side to your knowledge that might make it even more interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  Pinkett: The Tech: Once you leave MIT and get out into the real world, to ... your overall success as opposed to extracurriculars or other activities ... learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  to eat. For more blog entries that begin with great food recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck). After dinner, it was over to the Boston Common Theater, Boston's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... housemaster Roe, the floor convened to discuss how we would deal with similar ... worth the look on Roe's face when he walks in to a room full of 20 people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  little breath of sunshine to your day between cramming your 18.02 homework and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the kitchen makes people stop on the way to their room and chat about their day

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  by the end, you can sit back in your chair and understand how the world ... item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a ... understandably disappointed, are remaining upbeat, continuing to work on other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... from my mistakes, and moved on. I changed how I studied, focused on

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your ... year occurs tomorrow, when I get knocked out to have all four of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  will give you space on the application to explain your circumstances, and ... mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or ... efforts to understand how we can best evaluate academic readiness for all

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the tasks, how long they take and how they depend on each other, and how many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  on that later), so I need to get some experiments finished up before ... means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  -grader, but it's true, so there you go. Rain, on the other hand, just gets ... room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious ... !) Unfortunately, I'm not going to sing it for you. Sorry, but trust me, you're

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008