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• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live ... this is just to say, we're both pretty bored people at the moment. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  whether or not science actually sells. You can read the full interview here ... accessories. OK, so maybe it′s not that common of a story. Regardless, what ... on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? All canned pineapple is cooked. This is why you can use canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the ... is no time of year for morning people. Here's the big cup of coffee I ... around and not the gold. I took some time off in the middle of the day to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique ... had asked the question, not a college (you'll get less performance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  on LGBQT life here. The short story: MIT has renewed their You Are Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical ... game of cornhole. "What," you might ask, "in the world is cornhole?" As ... . Simply put, the goal is to land beanbags onto the wedges (one point), or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Mind, but this is most often the Linguistics Department) while still ... simultaneously." The hope is that by analyzing a lot of languages, we'll see ... group like QRLG. Such is the nature of the UROP system: if you're curious

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Super Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out for the Wii on ... unhealthy version of the Croque-monsieur, which is itself just grilled cheese ... -McFreeWireless. It might not be the best upload space up there, but, then again, since

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  state of mind—my average mood is more positive, the fluctuations have felt ... burden of expectations!). It’s also not just the 🕷️💣college🪦🏴‍☠️ of the ... absolutely amazing. Then there’s the fact that everything is new, and as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but ... the parts needed for the repair is no longer being sold. So instead they ... Intel Core M in some of the new surface pro tablets. This is a less

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided ... done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was ... that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  subconscious for months but that I’ve not had the time or emotional capacity to ... is the first vaguely pleasant interaction with programming I’ve had ... should save myself the worry of trying to guess. The best I can do is to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep course. This decision is totally dependent on the type of person you ... , and I cheered up fasttt. Basically, my point is: after the MCAT, you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So ... * Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design ... obvious, I would think, is that I'm not even actually serious about becoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  graduated. At graduation, one of the traditions at MIT is for all the ... you're an undergrad, you wear it so that "the beaver is sh*tting on you ... world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  final, 6.034 Artificial Intelligence. The grading for this class is quite ... and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Decisions Details for retrieving your EA admissions decision on Monday evening.

  

  . Q. What is the process for receiving my admissions decision? A. When ...  https://decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... ://my.mit.edu and click on the lost password link in the orange log-in box on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  is the Spanish class I'm currently taking for HASS credit. Today we ... take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours, but I've been doing that since way before my app ever made it to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  with before the Battle of the Bands. Take it as you will, it is not ... from the center of campus to sleep. Of course not until after talking to ... about my joining the team (I'm not rich, I just have close family that

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007