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• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... out and shook up my routine a little bit the other day. Before heading ... 'd park myself and do some hardcore, pomodoro-style studying for 7.05. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held ... set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The topic of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  deadlines coming up for our admissions process, especially if you are applying ... Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It ... bags underneath their eyes for quite some time now. Saturday (the day of ... for all the teams. MIT Natya is one of several dance teams on campus; I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  due (halfway there!) Powerpoint for Toy Design (haven't started ... 've got a physics test I haven't studied for, a 2 PSETS I haven't started, a ... now). But wait, there's more! I'll save the full story for later

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it simply as an avenue to become a pilot and to pay for school. I wasn ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  -- to change the world. Up for it? More news soon... ... Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For ... of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  writing this entry one week ago today. A lot has been up. I designed a ... was delayed for three hours. Sam's Mom has a broken refrigerator. My ... ago Justin Kim wrote: I did this program for a class I'm taking called

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time. For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting ... Mechanical Engineering who also went to MIT for undergrad. Every week, they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man ... " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  imagination, but for those of you interested, here's my take on the lay of the land. (But I am good with pick-up lines) I'll flashback to the conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: "Now don't be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  Johns Hopkins:"For all the regular decision applicants out there, we ask for your PATIENCE throughout the month of January. Please do not contact ... three weeks for us to process all of these application materials

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter ... slept for 30.5 hours (and will probably sleep at least 10 tonight

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a total of 120 possible points. Nearly 4,000 students sat for the exam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  school night. I signed up for a LARP just because I'd never tried one and I ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... 's pretty common around here for people to use our October long weekend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  side is her wardrobe and the other side has a shelf for her make up and ... wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and ... rooms have can be chalked up. Another way to dress up plain white walls if

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  whole way up. Which is why when I found myself out in Oregon for the ... up for one last hurrah and I set out to do it. To scale Monkey Face ... probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020