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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... particular hack was done to honor the 50th anniversary of NASA, which was ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... to play today? You guessed it... Admissions: You Make The Call. So you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... need to think about where you're going or what your options are. You also

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

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  things to blog about. But, since it's my last semester as an undergrad, and ... , cause sophomore fall fucking sucked. good riddance to sophomore fall ... , which I've somehow managed to put off until my very last semester. We read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  -mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress made difficult was responding promptly to important emails. As anyone who

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  (I know you’re tempted to stop reading after the video, but keep ... the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... – if something’s messed up, it’s usually to blame.) The real gem of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  arriving to campus to begin their orientation to MIT. I'm excited to connect ... First-Gen/Low-Income Pre-Orientation Program designed to help students from marginalized backgrounds with their transition to MIT. Additionally

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern ... day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the ... advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006