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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... ’t end here. As snow began to actually build up on the sidewalk, I went to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental health on campus, a usual subject for me. However, this time, I took a look ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount Auburn Street when a state trooper pulled them over for not displaying a ... . For the record, it also looks a little like a stealth bomber.   My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  their grandmother. However, it's time to move on with this blog post ... at nights to help out with rush and recruiting freshmen for my ... it starts to feel more overwhelming than this run-on sentence -- that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... we don’t have to worry about water for crop irrigation. But, there’s still “no water” for people to drink, cook, or wash with in many places

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December ... hard drive. Psshh and HP told me I’d have to spend $40 on recovery disks ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... up for a class because then you’re obligated to attend sessions and ... and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... 're feeling right now, because i don't. all i have to go on are these vague ... platitudes. you can feel that you want to avoid everything mit-related for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  Magazine you'll find the great On Language column, as well as The Ethicist ... number of requests for college recommendations in past years. He said that some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... freshmen even created some fun CPW events for everyone on the fly, such as ... to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on ... Physics for Masochists...and for good reason. Even before actually coming to ... semester, to find out where my limits are." So I signed up for 8.012, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  , but it didn't matter. It was all worth it to me for the element of ... 's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going ... behind the Prudential Center that Cathy had been wanting to try for a while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week ... drove two hours to New Haven on the morning of and two hours back the same night. This was a lot of firsts for me: first time driving on a long trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  background. Once again, go to the exhibit to see for yourself! (It also runs ... [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  's deadlines are almost certainly different. So many deadlines! It's easy to forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of what's out there. In that spirit, here are some deadline for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... different communities. To me, being on RingComm really helps fulfill both of ... ; 17.307 Excited for a class is a... strong term... but I choose to have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to ... would like to let you all know that they are the 23 coolest freshmen on ... New House to run events for, and mentor, freshmen within our dorm who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012