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• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own food…… Oh and I took your iphone earlier because my phone was dead….. And

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science ... as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but aren't the most important part of your application. Letters of ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  would allow you to do awesome research as an undergrad. Has this been your ... valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... intellectually dazzling UROP during your first years at MIT, but it's well worth

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you're ... classes for you to easily fill up your eight semesters here. 1113213211. If ... means that you have more room to shine and stand out amongst your peers

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  homemade dinners without fearing that you accidentally poisoned your own food ... hugging an overstuffed sandwich that your doctor (the one who told you to ... , along with a lithosphere of Youtube-and-Wikipedia dressing, hold your life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  along with it. That's right, your comments actually affect what happens in ... your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... thing about step by step directions instead of a map, one mistake and you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  blogs, at CPW, on Facebook...etc., and as you make your final decisions, good luck and best wishes to your final choice. Like what Paul said ... ESP out when you're on campus! You'll be surprised at how much you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  introduce myself to them, and they say, "Oh, you're not an undergrad, right ... see a movie at noon. The e-mail concluded, probably half-jokingly, "You're ... from me. Hokay, so HASS papers are important. But unless you're planning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  's very easy to project a very linear path for your life or your experience ... make sure you end up where you a priori predict your end point. While ... there exist opportunities you may have never encountered in your life, it

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room, that’s just being alone. If you’re walking through a crowded subway station, there’s just lots of people. But if you’re surrounded by people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  your highest-level cognitive processes work properly, and these are probably the first ones to go when your brain begins to deteriorate. i wonder ... humanity desperately needs to attempt. that way, you can live with your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  checking if it’s the right bandsaw for the material you’re cutting, you turn ... , but you don’t know who your teammates are. You’re trying to figure out either who’s on your team, or what the other team’s word is. If you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  of the week. Me: You're not gonna mention ZBT? R: What is there to ... here is okay. But, but the bottom is far, far worse. You're gonna throw ... added something but then immediately retracted it.] Me: You're done. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yourself before you're pulled out of your seat into a three hour hullabaloo ... off of your feet and gently drop you a few steps ahead. And even if it ... life interesting. I needed a reminder of that. Raise Your Glass To

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021 ... remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  commencement they make you give them your cap and gown, which they proceed to shake. They then check you for any visible bulges. If you’re clean then you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  mutants, but you can't (because they are inviable). Your boss challenges you ... your construct? That's the kind of thing that can't be solved by ... anything is definitely harder if English isn't your first language. I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006