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• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  look back at how different i was as a freshman. a lot of the things that ... choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... eat at any of Harrisburg's otherwise fine pizza establishments anymore ... of the day had come half an hour earlier at Broad Street Market, when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was ... (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... could have a great experience at any of those schools, just like I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... 't shout out, and aren't disrespectful of each other or me. They laugh at my ... . At the end of class, I collect the notecards; they say things like "you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... had been tossing around the idea of hating superman for a few days at ... other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  the same kind of mistakes at about the same age, and master the same parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it ... oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They ... -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... at the grocery store, a shortage of guns. But there are also scenes ... killers, and a tavern at the end (or the intersection) of worlds, where

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020