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• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed ... offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... the peak time of the year to go. Here is some pictures from the highway

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  keeps me up at night. The Political Science department here is excellent ... access your admissions decisions. And if the response is negative, you ... will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail ... catch me off guard. There are times when the world is really really good

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... ’t. No one should. Salem is famous for the Trials. But did you know that ... of the Seven Gables (the author is also famous for the Scarlet Letter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good ... relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... . Do not apply to MIT because your life goal is to go to MIT. Apply because you enjoy something, even if that something is ephemeral and vague

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how expensive an unfamiliar grocery store is, check how much they charge for a few

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications ... ...making a video. Filming Spoiler alert: most of the video is computer ... August that is so beautiful and soothing I'm going to embed it right here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  during the fall semester. What is Tetazoo? Tetazoo is the name of the third floor of the East Parallel of East Campus, which is currently (and ... cabin) and there was no snow. Hiking without snow is so much better than

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... .60: Thermodynamics and Kinetics Thermodynamics is my final premed requirement, and it ... Systems Sensory systems is co-taught by faculty from MIT and Harvard Medical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is ... is Quynh Nguyen and I’ve always wanted to be an admissions blogger ... Network. The Quest Scholars Network is a group of all MIT Quest Scholars

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it ... campus happiness between today and yesterday is the biggest i've ever seen." Why today?  Today is Friday: the most glorious day of the week. I woke

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in ... pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less of a premed when you're doing X, but someone you know is (probably

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... we go! Psets are an abbreviation for"Problem Sets", which is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  how admissions is different today from when we received admit letters ... fun for the applicants, or for admissions officers, but it sadly is the ... challenge in the weeks ahead is to ultimately select a school from the list of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  thankfully proclaim: IT IS FINISHED! Oh thank goodness...... As Design Editor ... really is teamwork. We all needed each other's fortes, whether it was ... yearbook is something every member at Technique, for whatever unexplainable

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  , impeccably sanded (by Yan & Co.) roofdeck is a full-service pit stop on the ... Course 21W: Writing and Humanistic Studies.* *What in the world is a writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for ... 's a catchy name if I ever heard one. *Liquid nitrogen ice cream is one ... , MIT is still honored with my presence. Also, schlepping through the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... 'clock AM it had been taken down. This is one of my favorite pictures (as sad

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008