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• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy ... , and, well, it's a month later. I woke up on the floor of the blood bank

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine ... the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on ... , during which Christina and I called our parents to congratulate them on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  anything from a song you heard on the radio to a national issue raised during ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  , obviously. What do you do to punt, de-stress, or reset, on or off the ... waking up to ensure your day   gets off on the right foot? What happened ... cute not to post on here. I'm UROPing in the Personal Robots group at the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  today: I received season 1 of Grey's Anatomy on DVD I went to Wellesley for the first time ever I saw Ben Affleck on the sidewalk! ... first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  the greatest at Spanish. It's nice to be in an environment that works on ... came in so I used the time to catch up on some reading for my classes ... Rooie Rules by playing rough, the girls began to call them out on it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... of these things. I ask you to answer honestly, and move on to the next ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  /password we emailed to you). The video will come down soon after the CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... :00pm EDT, in order to accommodate both coasts (and all the lovely time

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... say that: the blogs actually turned twenty on August 6th, 2024. But as ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  Underground was running on time, and you all made it to the competition just in ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a ... , so they didn't know which motor to use. The robot builders decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... . Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... 's really interesting and was a great way to kick off the FLC's focus on COVID ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  Starbucks account would pay for everybody to get the extra stars. On Wednesday ... to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... passed away suddenly, and it shook me to my core that the last time I would

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  working on the whole writer's block issue while you play (so it's smart to ... college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation ... research shows that considering performance on the SAT/ACT substantially

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  friends. Hold on to the people you love. Hugs and hot chocolate can fix many ... you of that. Today on the walk back to Next, I watched a gaggle of ... this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  the grid point on the map and plan the best way to attack. You brief ... ’re going to do it, what support you have (if any), and the callsigns ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  and Katherine cut out a headboard to mount the stag head on. I start ... ten groups present on their work. The sleep deprivation is starting to ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017