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• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... number) Ok I'm done making you look at walls. We'll graduate from walls to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... environment by using a centrifuge that consisted of a two meter bed that a test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... Mauritius (Geraldine), and of course to meet many of the parents, too (hi!). The "Meet the Bloggers" party was a lot of fun, not because anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  boyfriend at the time played a lot of CSGO and Overwatch, so I quickly became ... couple of quotes from the last few weeks. "God, look at the Pinkies go ... . At first, it seems a little boring and janky, but the twins quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

   (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of ... Mass Ave, and of course, nearly every Chipotle (burritos!) located a ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... opinion, this diversity is one of MIT's greatest strengths. Although I could probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  where I spend most of my time, take a deep breath, look up at the stars ... picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... stuck at home for 6 (yes, for real, thanks mister snow storm) extra days

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... like you were there with us, here's a little bit of the evening: And in ... "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  all year and he decides now, with two weeks of school left (at that ... wasn't hard, just very badly organized. At the end of every term, you ... it considering the tuition here, but at least it's over. As one of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  short sentence at the end of an essay or story to maximize its impact. Unfortunately this often backfires: a short sentence at the very end of an essay ... letting them read at the end of your second revision. Ask them to read after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  .) “What was Course VI originally known as at MIT?” We’re now in the realm of ... make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second ... -year grade report at the end of January. Also, a quick question about ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  elimination. (I kid you not.) I made a list of all 20 some odd majors here at ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the ... middle, to three of their friends flanking them. i glance again at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  HORRIBLE! You probably just lounged around and laughed at all of us!" While I ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011 ... the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... , and good thing, too, since I'll be working at NASA this summer building

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007