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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  I have a real-ish job I can spend more time out in the mountains that ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... -ish snowstorm. Of course now school is in full swing and I'm running full-tilt to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants ... MassArt should she come across a Time-Turner in her dorm. I hate hipsters ... supplies. Kirsten plans to major in 2 and 20 to make robots that can gently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your ... when I'm not overflowing with creativity, I've found that being sincere ... checklist, which will now be turned off. In order to reduce any extra stress

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  exterior. Ok that's a tough one. Let's see if we can zoom in a bit: How ... studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  -to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in ... ;   Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience ... there, I took this chance to briefly lock the frosh up in one of the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  discuss it in person. Sometimes, things can get misconstrued or ... , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... officers themselves, were different and special in their own way. However, I ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1 ... blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during ... write about things you do at MIT. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident ... caulk, I fill in a couple of suspiciously mouse sized holes with the same

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  , knowing that we can only take fewer than 400 people during Early Action. I ... for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  * "this bad boy can fit so many velociraptors in it” – Anonymous MIT ... participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... school counselor handed me the microphone after her warm welcome I was in ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year ... siblings), and I find that I can't really relate to that at all, and perhaps

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... . The first one I actually made looked like this: Which, in true MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the ... as a harmless sounding “Exam 1”. I also don’t like how I borderline

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009