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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... greatest mercy in making us look unequivocally lame to the dozens of 12-year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  on the light (from mitsloan.mit.edu). E62 is also the most energy ... Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country ... ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  to grow fat is a privilege afforded to people who had food in the first ... honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... factor is that, despite taba in Tagalog meaning the same as the English fat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  .Y, will go to Brown in the fall. When admissions deans and high ... dictate what the dean should write in an e-mail message to her son to ... members raise questions in the most unlikely settings. A member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  really want to be here.) 3) Is the list ranked? No, not in any way. 4) What ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier ... welcome responses from anyone in the MIT community. If you want to fill out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  , which is the white board in our lounge where people put their name, room number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... interesting to read the differences between two amazing Nigerian authors in two ... the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  NEET is a collaborative and project-based academic program from the School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build the new machines that will address societal needs by preparing them to
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in terms of where I'd get the most free stuff. This turned out to be an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... experience there is what inspired me to take the other two, although I had no ... were points in the semester where I was just like “lol class is so not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop ... 've been realizing that my strongest and most enduring interests--as in, the ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010