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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  like I was developing a sense of myself. That fall, I applied to a bunch ... , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  pause and take in everything around you. Some of you have already gotten in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  some of my comments could apply to minorities as well, but I'm not a ... really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  Goddess” at Jordan Hall in Boston. Luckily, it wasn't four hours straight of ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... of fun! We talk about things like what separates [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... ’s a full semester’s worth of cool things, none of which are particularly applicable or useful, but there you go.  Albatross Lore For a good portion of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... publish a few of each of our favorites below, and I've noted which prompt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  I've mentioned in prior posts that my hall, Tetazoo, in East Campus ... the top of the Ridge Cars 3 and 4, led by Jackie S. '14 and Cappie P ... Ridge sunrise hike I was a part of Car 3 with Jackie. We were all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  Random Hall to a guy who was wearing something like a roll of paper towels ... tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's time to apply it to... How your screen displays lots of different colors ... . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Social Sciences) community. Some of our professors are widely recognized

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... 's probably one of the most influential and life-changing talks I've ever sat on. As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... are tiny; students don't really take advantage of them. This is fine by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no ... of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester ... minute video essay of a close reading analysis of a Triple-A game. A Triple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021