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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... you do the same for them. Here at MIT, we hold each other up in a ... rained for approximately 70% of the time, and it's hard to hold up an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  taught the 6.810 class I took last semester. For the past few weeks, I've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the ... 're reading technical papers each recitation. For example: Last week we

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  up for. McCormick, Simmons, Baker, and Next houses all require that their freshmen sign up for at least a “Basic 14” meal plan, which includes ... meal plan or not. However, regardless of the price, I signed up for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  's biggest piece of feedback for me was to loosen up, and I've never quite ... exercises I did to build up my upper back strength. 10 minute poses For the ... !!), is also my most recent sketchbook because I've hardly drawn for myself

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  [*] dressed up as Scarlet Witch for Halloween [*] saw Spider-Man: No Way Home ... up. So after submitting several versions for review and fact ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  everything is just setting myself up for disappointment. Yet instead of feeling ... I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... August 20th, I carted my things up to my room on the third floor

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  listings. I signed up for a bacterial photography workshop, because I ... sign up for events like these anyway. There are so many things I want to ... somehow I ended up on the Wikipedia page for puzzlehunts, and then I ended

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends ... , exercising is honestly not nearly as high up as it probably should be (read: is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  beaver, just like (and for the same reasons as) ours. Recently, Daphne ... they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American computer science or math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ultimately build up the next stage for you to shine on. For everything that ... '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game ... there is more to your application than that, and MIT is looking for more ... away from the application (not past the deadline) but go for a walk, play

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... ourselves as we walked up the catwalk in front of our potential dates. "Bryan ... . Mitra enjoys the economic thrill of auctions. Our emcee for the night

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... beginning to pop up, I wasn't too surprised to find this on my journey this ... letters (figure this one out, folks). Going up a flight of stairs, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces ... pick up their art beginning on Wednesday. Any winnings not collected by ... , "Each year, bleary-eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  this we're even already getting ready for next year's contest. As part of our summer training, we've been coming up with our own puzzles to prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  status portal? It can take up to 10 working days for materials to show up ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  around the room, MIT students collectively sighed and picked up their nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  haven't yet replied: As soon as you've made up your mind for sure about ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  great and I hope it's a good fit for me. And if I end up there, you ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006