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• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  fashion, come home a few hours later and camp out in the basement of our house to work. This is not the point of the story, though. The point is ... this might be the weirdest conversation I have ever had, the good news is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  often does everyone hear that? Kindergarteners could tell you that. At the time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I ... -ended piece of advice, when you get down to the nitty gritty. As I've repeated

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  according to Wikipedia: 546 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila ... excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1777 – France formally recognizes the United States of America. 1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to ... you're smoking today between the 6.5 hours of airport sitting plus the 4 ... I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  honest, so is the number of RA applicants who are admitted. It's hard to ... committees, and no one person has access to the reason (or set of reasons) why ... characterized by this kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... me feel like I’m giving up on all those core aspects of my life. At the ... didn’t understand the vastness of the world, but my fear deepened as I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... . At the end of the summer, he pulled me aside and said, “Gabe, I know it feels like I’ve brushed off a lot of your questions about the Trail. If

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  beautiful afternoon. Last Friday marked the end of my first full week of ... the 100s of emails advertising activities at MIT have mentioned free ... about somewhere. I think in numbers. The other day, I called one of my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note="The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... great. * By chance, one of the Protofrosh visited during a special 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  that it did and I made the most of it. What does this all say about life ... of the things that I appreciate about my MIT experience thus far is ... over campus and begin to gain a better understanding of who the people

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... ! Because the majority of America is not uneducated, wasteful, and overweight. I ... and grandma made were of course the best I ever had, being homemade and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... online are a good place to start. And there are plenty of research ... abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  , a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might ... semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the most delectable desserts on this side of the country including chocolate

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer internship

  

  the joys of signing an NDA.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 26, 2024