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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... most versatile words in the MIT vernacular, if not in the recorded ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... us they really wanted us to be home for the [annotation note="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... price on anything. Heh. That proved to be the perfect segue into our gift ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until ... on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... lucky, and hopefully this answer will be the one your instructor intended ... throw a wild party, where she will be able to embarrass him in front of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... contributing to the "loud unrestrained American" stereotype, so I did a bit of ... my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  did not anticipate teaching kids to be the cause of my downfall. I used ... would be blasphemous to call a Welsh entity English, but using the ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... implementation to consider, not to mention all the ethics, advocacy, and ... adapted to be a description of the stereotypical MIT engineer, this is wrong

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  ’t make a specific choice when I think I need to make it, there will be a ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best ... be days when things will simply not go as planned. Or days where things

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... not be disadvantaged if recommenders submit their recommendations
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  because you will probably be up much later than you expected to be, and not ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... fully explaining why you were unable to finish the assignment in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up ... loneliest human: Here was this man, the first man to orbit the moon, a man ... stands up from the audience to say a few words applauding the teamwork

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise ... will be on Ocotber 29, and yet AGAIN it was cancelled. Now the biggest ... going to MIT (two certain, one pending ;) ) will be very taxing for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  out to be Sarah stealing snacks from the pod lounge. When she came out ... was not in the right mindset to do them the night before. I was so sleep ... 'm not sure if I'm going to be crying on this birthday, though. There are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

  to sign into your MyMIT account. There will be no interim screens, so ...       MIT Regular Action decisions will be ... . Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure ... participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program. For those who are not aware

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... experience, and they'd be happy to talk about the ins and outs of MIT culture ... a second major at the same time, but I wouldn't be able to pursue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011