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• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  house to work. This is not the point of the story, though. The point is ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with ... like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  will be organizing Admitted Meetings. This post is my attempt to convince ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... is organized to celebrate you! Come to the Admitted Meeting to… Make

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... understand why they didn't do this from the start. I hope more companies will ... nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  larger lab which includes the Lego Lab) that's supposed to be really awesome, but I'm not sure how one would be able to take such a tour. Maybe ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  and the scores won’t change. 2) They will most likely not be the factor ... ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  was too lazy to visit during the year! i'm glad that will no longer be a ... . it normally takes me ~8-10 minutes to walk to [annotation note="the ... ="aligncenter" width="585"] the long and arduous journey from burton conner to building

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  to the other 88% - have faith that you will find a wonderful place and ... later entry and instead use this one to give you progress reports over the course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  papers and remember I'm not supposed to simply be reading these papers, but ... myself that a conclusion should not be a reiteration of the ideas we ... Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  right.—A year ago I moved to the US to study at MIT, and decided not to ... . [/annotation]It can be easier to just listen to your gut and do the safe thing ... while being forced to face the consequences is a big part of becoming an

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... , trying to manage your temperature, and that ice is not just ice the world ... . Looked like we were going to be in for quite a bit colder than the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... , but, you know, I still manage to be a part of the discussions just fine ... college is not my entire life, and I am unwilling to let it be. I think that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  white foam appears anyway. I'd be willing to bet that the type of water ... you may not to get exactly the position you want, but you should be able ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... tour of the lab with all the equipment. (I must add that I did not know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to ... story: it's likely that most people on the waitlist will not be ... many students will attend this year. To help with the uncertainties, we

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  the humanities here at MIT? Do you want to be profiled here? Does your ... accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  digital format. It also records whatever is being said and maps it to the ... the end, it just wasn't meant to be, the graphics cards weren't powerful enough, but I still mourned the loss of being able to take notes on a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the ... description I just submitted to the events crew: You've spent the last 6 months getting to know the admissions "bloggers" online. Come meet Matt, Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  ",[/annotation] but for the purposes of this blog, I will not be worrying about this ... into why the hell I'm [annotation note="alas it isn't just to cause an ... hell it means to "be a mathematician". I felt like this would be the only

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  . MIT pays for college cards, so basically anybody willing to brave the ... Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse ... vicinity of 66 just because why would such totally random number not be right

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  had always been the bane of my existence, and not being able to ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it ... be fun. Not to say grade school wasn’t fun, but I felt like I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023