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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... the best team ever, or the time we got to eat free burritos during

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  semester ends can do… things… to your sleep schedule. Also it was the weekend ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  intended to keep them that way. As the first exam week came, I failed the ... and to learn the material in a way that I'd remember it. They also told me to take a step back and get an overarching view of the material to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  operations will continue is really the only practical way to think about ... people together with your ideas and hard work. By the way, this isn’t some ... the company is going to go bankrupt next week, why are you projecting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  even when you get all the way to the sorbet. Even as you change what you ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... open the food processor. You move the fruit around with a utensil to get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... your job is really, really conducive to doing it very well. It's pretty

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  't imagine spending their IAP any other way. The end. Thanks to all the ... , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really ... the details--we don't really care if your essay is 499 words long or 550

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  … or by Oct. 30th as the last email from MITPE commanded…Maybe it’ll get ... of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... competitive enrollment is the IAP beginner glassblowing class, which uses a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  . The Department is committed to a concern for human values and for ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the sections that were going to be on the test. Cue Facebook. The best and worst ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  because you're that good. The best compliment we got at Civic all year came ... Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Chris Peterson. For ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in ... shooting the turkeys, think of it as an opportunity to focus all of your ... trying to get them to miss. I see your hand shaking! I SEE IT! DON'T MISS

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... stops along the way to see waterfalls and to catch our first glimpse of ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I searched for the optimal way to get above ground) … ran back inside ... my footwear in the Simmons bathroom. I needed to get out. The roach had ... going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... triangle shape, and one side is longer than the other. My roommate gets the ... , and dropping chem classes is not the best method for that. Still

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  had my own tears to wipe away. I've been so moved by the emotions I ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012