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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  , and I don't know how much longer father can hold out. The enemy has ... a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  -below temperatures seeps into your bones. I can still recall the breath of the cows and ... that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... can differ so drastically between rural America and city life. I have

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... sponsored by a local radio station. It's like a drive-in without the car

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  can be considered with your other talents in your application. Send this ... process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... how long I stared at this thing until I found the word &ldquo ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge ... , and reboot the cycle. I quit the six-hour Tech Call job in lieu of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  difficult. I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been doing..... (*drum roll ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to ... everywhere. I didn’t have a car in high school, or a license for that matter

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  . Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in ... night almost ended in a sketchy, sketchy way, except that I am

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... with them in the beginning, and I am paying for that now. 😬 [carousel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  . I can't even count how many people I know in the current undergrad ... plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  is, in fact, the only frequency I can demonstrate." 7.23, Immunology ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my ... about things I'm sure you all think about in bed -- structural chemistry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... give some advice on how prospective students —  and their parents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021