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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  clearly had to share it with everyone we knew, or to preserve that one crazy ... anticlimactic, but apparently I had needed to take it to show someone some ... randomness of the email sent out to my sorority's spam list is just absurd

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  darkness trailing its descent. Whenever his rapid pacing brought him to the ... her temper—but give him a good talking-to just before then. “It’s over ... . *** One of the first things to go was time. It lingered around for a while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... would stick with me as much as they did, but even now, I think back to it ... freshman year, I dabbled around with major ideas. I knew I wanted it to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  year. This decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay ... of you to apply to MIT. It’s an honor and a privilege for us to read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... are differences to celebrate. (It's the fundamental pulse of the process ... Mikey would sing its prefrosh to sleep at night with his or her favorite

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  Society): It was with deep sadness that I bid farewell to first semester ... stretcher! And it'll have a button to lower/lift it! Which means my biceps and ... that Nobel Prize? It’s all too much to memorize! :D Part VI: Post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  only is it interesting, but this has really turned out to be a great ... (although I think Isreal is the most recent). Well, I've been wanting to go ... really excited, and decided to apply. Here's how it works: I went to http

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  submit the supplement are not), and there is no audition process to take ... your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  that's not worth it. This post is dedicated to the current seniors ... Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  . Perhaps it's a bit of an overexaggeration, but it seems that this is a ... moment I came back to California for winter break. It's strange to think ... unabashedly. This is the person I was meant to be. And MIT gave me that chance

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little ... larger whole by seemingly unhinging his jaw which is amusing to watch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... Twins.[/caption] It was a lot easier for me to focus on sharpening my UI ... designed with color! (It shouldn’t take long to notice that my design

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  change is so quick you can't even process what's happening. Flashback to ... that next year, I'd be alone. And as selfish as it was, I began to ... everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the ... topology, to applied mathematics areas such as combinatorics, computational
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... Mount Rainier[/caption] If you keep climbing, it starts to feel like ... almost didn't want to eat them.   But as much as Seattle is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don ... breakfast is always longer than you think it is. Far and above it all it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... to cover all the weaknesses that come with your environment, because it ... microbiology as you are - but it's also good to show initiative and look for ways

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... said something like "it is not uncommon." I found some awkward way to ask

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013