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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of Jack Florey. If you're actually an ... . Besides, what good MIT student isn't up at 4 AM? (Dear Concerned Parents: we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... take a look at the result of the stacking - the sum of all the signal - and see whether I've found a pulsar. This is the kind of plot I look at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  question, just to ensure that all of me, or at least nearly all of me would ... , you chose which one you lived with.  I remember looking at the sea of ... , you chose which one you lived with.  I remember looking at the sea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... helicopter out of a cargo plane flying at 30,000 ft that would then fly itself ... 's gotten easier, I think I've just gotten a hell of a lot better at doing it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of why I chose to come back to MIT. Wandering around campus late at ... . It's kind of magical. In the lounge at midnight, laughing and talking ... of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during ... too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  test that we had, and started writing things down at the delirium of 6 ... thinking back, one of my clearest memories was that there were at least two ... a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant ... viral social media trend aimed at raising awareness of amyotrophic lateral

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... shower at least twice a month. ...but like most stereotypes, it also contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  + event at Head of the Charles. I was very happy, and so were my teammates ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  radio debut (there will be more of me on air next year at MIT, just a ... This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and ... photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  was chosen by all the players). I mentioned at the start of this post ... two types of players I couldn't understand at all: those who donated all ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019