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• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  into a handful of letters: [annotation note="Office of the First Year ... ="which notably leads cars from the center of Boston straight into the heart of MIT ... lot of energy into talking with people, my prioritization of events over

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number 1024!" Did you just think, "Hey, that's a power of 2!"? So did I! So did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  promise that attacking people is not going to help. Funnel your energy into shooting stuff out of air cannons, doing a ridiculous physics problem, or

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9 ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been ... History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... Freshman year. "Wow guys," said Katy, "You're one-eighth of the way done with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  flight, lugged my two massive suitcases into a relative’s waiting car, and ... bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun ... of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19 ... -focused credit limit for first year students. As of today, you (the person reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In total, there are 600+ published events over the course of CPW (wow!). Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... yesterday when thousands of soccer fans streamed onto Hanover Street to cheer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  respectable sources about college admissions, I descended into the depths of ... about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  and a half classes that fell under MIT's broad category of [annotation note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences classes, including one from each of those categories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  , we must not discard the importance of machines. Education provides ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  compiled all of my oddities into a single webpage. (It's kind of like a hall ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  important if you're considering studying at MIT!) But for those of you that ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal. More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006