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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more beyond comics and static images. And Lydia may or may not have suggested that I try to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  , or "what needs to be improved," simply because things are much more ... a much needed vacation soon (for me, starting next week). If you call ... ." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  turned to when they realized there was so much to be done because I already ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  're you eating/drinking? SO. MUCH. BUTTER. After listening to hours of ... much. There's a combination of things that I listen to and watch while I ... . Unless he’s decided I’ve been paying too much attention to the applicants

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  many branches break when there is so much to be done here, safer on the ... life in a fiery blaze. Only then does Walton choose to do something more ... is that “first years need to learn how to be independent at MIT”, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  —and is—a lovely museum, with so much to see. I had just started my journey ... distraction rather than the primary thing that I'm doing. It's so much harder to ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take ... . Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to ... DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  relationship with the world. doing this even once was hard. learning how to be ... has made boston feel simultaneously much smaller (so much quicker to get ... that feeling went away without needing me to consciously let go of it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  much stuff and there's so much work that you just don't want to explain ... whenever you need it. You should also come by this CPW, to any of the ... post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... needed to write quite a lot to say not just what it is like, but why we ... old. You do not need to finish every problem in the Big Game to get to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  chemical reactions. Going to MIT helps to give you the tools you need to ... senior year I realized that I've perhaps dedicated too much time to purely ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting ... classes this semester. Not only does it challenge students to think outside ... it comes to tests. Now that I’ve settled into my courses, I thought I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  out of things so much. I shouldn’t have felt guilty when I needed to ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25, a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  Chao: Does this guy even go to MIT? Continuously learn, entertain, and ... disrupted and ended, so I needed something to keep me excited. At first, I ... day to write a long, thoughtful, and very personal email about how much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  the appropriate level of nuance needed to handle such a topic. But now I ... just didn't have the mental stamina nor capacity to handle that much ... pretty harmful to my experience and I felt this desperate need to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  only does he manage to earn exceptional grades in advanced placement and ... doesn't happen all at once," he said. Obropta manages to communicate with ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill ... , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... . It almost makes me want to stop writing my usual blog entries about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006