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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  school; that there is so much left to sneak up on me, to change the way I ... want to; and it is not better to fill it more, or as much as possible ... this is what my parents have been trying to tell me for the past eight or

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

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... integrate the freshmen girls onto the floor is getting dressed up and going to ... dance floors and had to wait outside in the cold more than once, but they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  reality, our support system is much, much stronger than it was when I was In ... junior year, I stuck with the clubs I cared about the most and learned more about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on ... /50, while my team got the pieces they needed to turn in the other one. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy ... proximal development, in the sense that learning is best achieved when things ... this is not very impressive to most high school students but it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... wrong in my MIT application (didn't interview, didn't take the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  I was most interested in the performance of the flight and of the ... wore to the event (she is starting pilot lessons this year through the ... about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... first concept to understand is the General Institute Requirements (GIRs). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... (much to the delight of the tiny boy who was recruiting rides): And rock

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  assume the lock is supposed to go while you are riding the bike. Again ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it ... nothing, yet I still feel like the Harvard Police Department is going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  first-year student in college is much larger that the typical gap within ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... think this was one of the most important decisions I made in my freshman

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  something. In this day and age, this is far from the truth. You can go to a ... prestigious school in the world. Harvard is a meme. Harvard is camp. Back to ... Moines looks the same as my audience in Paris. As this is a college

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... . Most students who applied to MIT in early action this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full ... a hack. This tradition is a great opportunity for the freshmen to bond

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between ... so psyched to leave. Then, just in time for the home stretch I caught ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  after a governor in a hotel lobby gave us tickets to the show.  We also ... who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice ... to see who has the most APs; I do want to see, though, that you've done ... very helpful in getting to know you. Finally, I read the interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... ’s shabbos candles. The door handle is a beaver cast in bronze.  [carousel ... old. So much thought goes into the process of any project: where to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022