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• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is ... stressful! So we agree, we are all stressed. For this entry I propose that ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  '05. I dressed up as Indiana Jones for a friend's post ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... my eyes during camera flash, so I usually end up looking ridiculous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  messed-up and is still ok, what things can be messed-up for now but should ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  the river. I took advantage of my free time over IAP to sign-up for a ... morning and tennis practice from 5-7pm, I usually end up taking the ... with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... beating myself up over it last year, but I was right for being pissed off at ... old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it ... beach, we stopped by a Stop & Shop for some burger buns, patties, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  assistance. Plus, Bebras' mascot is the beaver, just like (and for the same ... challenge and how they can register their schools for the exam. I ... math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you're a student or a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... were making up words to sound cute. But apparently blustery means ... we were prepared for fun in the snow. With classes cancelled, we spent

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ideas for new products and developed alpha prototypes of their ideas. All

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... Space Jam. For those of you who aren't familiar with the movie (sad day

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on ... the second tower. The most personal part of the day for me was what we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  . For example, the degree to which other teams match up against any given ... offense was setting records for scoring, the defense was setting records for ... they should have won handily. Then, last night, the defense stepped up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go ... EMTs. Writing a short story for my HASS class was entirely entertaining and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  question popping up on Facebook statuses lately. For me, 18.02A was the ... IAP sucked up nearly 9 hours every week, but thank god for it I ... (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... 't escape until after finals. Tests pile up in the narrow, cramped margins of ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008