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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  , decisions will be posted. For regular action applicants, the deadline is ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals ... the moment, since my chem final is tomorrow, and we've learned so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look ... obsession with stickers. Sorry the pictures are so blurry! Lighting is difficult. Taking the pages out of their page protectors without hurting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  similarly striking Saving Facebook is hands-down the best law review article ... economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to ... take on this tremendous burden. The winning team in a Hunt is the one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  the new adMITs. What I’ve said so far is not based on just one personal ... is organized to celebrate you! Come to the Admitted Meeting to… Make ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  poked in the nose when the other kitten is still eating and they are not ... not pounce on your toes under the covers?" "Life of a cat" "Training ... what they are leaping over is the barrier between something really good

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  -picked to assemble the best possible team to climb the mountain which is ... number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to ... another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some local

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  in South Africa is really defined by the conversations that I had. And ... what the people of Kwazulu-Natal taught me is something completely different. That no one is more empowered to drive change than the people that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best ... every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college ... years of adventures on the T! After all, it’s not about the destination

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  could be proud of. I'm not all the way there yet (who is?) and I don ... know after five years of living here is more on every level than the one ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... third of the crowd were men, which is a lot more than any other yoga class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  .[/annotation]:  The Friendly Toast is astir with early-morning chatter and the bubbling ... Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  today is the 'unluckiest day', then maybe tomorrow is the luckiest? If not in the decision, then probably in something else, if you keep your mind ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  ! Not only the research is very good - the writing is very good, too!" To ... job. Then I got the grade. Not what I expected. Stunned, I skimmed ... "issues". What really hurt, though, was the last comment: "when it is time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... . All I can say is wow! If you happen to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ... me is fully aware that when it comes to sports I L-O-V-E the University

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is ... 'm not a foodie, but I know when something is delicious and photographs ... outside on a bench in the evening. Y Cafe is a cheap and delicious

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  the Crafts Fair, Friday is the International Development Fair itself ... through the fair grounds. "The annual Fair is organized by the MIT ... offerings related to International Development. The Fair is also the flagship

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... is the whole story. It just keeps on going. Bringing new twists and ... assumption that the story generator is absolute - i.e., the story generator

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  .  All that is left is the national exam, which I am taking within the next ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... what the class is about, which is a bit concerning given that my first

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... keeps me up at night. The Political Science department here is excellent

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017