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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  .621) to then complete the following semester (16.622). In a nutshell, my ... , differences in pressure need to physically make sense. Magical. My notes for the ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in the Life.  This is one day where students all over campus - grad ... normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  sailor” (Franklin Roosevelt), and “the most effective way to do it, is to ... over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the ... “opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  forced to watch this in the summers because THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO WATCH ... lot of TV. So, in the spirit of Advent calendars*, I'm going to ... applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that ... the summer as something to do when I was alone in my little New York ... time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of Afghanistan?" "What would allow the Roman Empire to last until today?" Table

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... realize MIT is unlike almost any other college in the country, right

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... fewer applicants this year - fully intending to use the waitlist in order ... the truth is simply that this journey has ended. My only consolation in

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  of the Bands is an event held every CPW where ten local bands come to MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan ... 's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to know that there are other people in the same boat, and that feeling ... to enjoy myself. I hope the main takeaway from reading this is that it ... , with offices in New York City. I was really looking forward to the change

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Campus" in the picture below. I also managed to stab myself in the hand ... to clean the table! We had other nice slogans as well, most of which ... people's rooms, talking to Alex '04 in Pittsburgh over the phone, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers ... into this, because the actual story is way less cool. In fact, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre ... the Materials Science FPOP known as DMSE, as well as continue to help with all the cool things going on in the East Campus Courtyard! There are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  hectic in the summer at MIT anyway; you don't have to worry about classes ... denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  randomness of the email sent out to my sorority's spam list is just absurd ... here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient ... wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to ... -find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able ... the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron ... photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  lived in the lodge then. It had been threatening to rain all day-- darker ... -pat, pit-pat. "Is it raining?" One co-worker rushed to the windows. Then ... the streaks would show. Everyone wanted to know. "Is it?" No, it was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  actually happened a few years ago, which is why the rule was implemented in ... to Elder is mildly irritating - it's almost directly across the street ... right here?!" The kid right next to us, though, took the cake. In a voice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007