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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... time staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Woodrow ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  , there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  reports) to remind me of the pleasant times spent at Makerlodge this ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... image of Yoda momentarily appears at the point of impact. Now, granted ... DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new ... at too high of a temperature, you won't get any crusting at all ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  journal: Today at the Plastic Lunch, the periodic get-together of the ... " -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of ... piling the pieces at the front of the room, so that the kids could all sit on the floor. I put the projector at the back of the room, and got Eric

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at ... you choose to throw at yourself. It's just six units of free credit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  efficient work before my bed time. Lately, I've been spending at least half of ... Ensemble's production of Macbeth. I had a blast! Clocked in at 9 a.m. and had dinner with some of the crew at 6 p.m. It wasn't until three days later

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024