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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that ... make breakfast for the girls in the house before they went off to finals ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... people hang lounges upside down.. notice how the light is on!!! I got to ... festival in the Johnson Athletics Center; I got to meet some really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from ... . Come and see how we did it. 6 opportunities in 6 minutes: 12 weeks until ... ideas in our brainstorming session, things were steadily getting more

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only ... about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... process and how much I gained from it. I wouldn't be nearly as willing to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... how they donated money to your charity. For the business, it increases ... . Pavlok, a wearable device that zaps you in order to break you out of your

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... never actually get to something 2-dimensional, given that the slices of ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... little window to campus and show you how we here deal with stress. I didn ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... local explanation is this (from Tumblr): You may be wondering how to use

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I mostly live off my credit card.) It's always good how to learn to cook new things. So I went with My Suitemate Linda, and we learned how to make

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  !), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try ... shouted, "Wait, where does my foot go next? Wait how am I supposed to put my ... three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... that this school saw in me. Even moreso to be able to share my adventures

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  suddenly remember how to breathe. I got a 68 on that take-home exam. (Learn ... pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in ... happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary ... life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  things from different angles and in different lights, also being willing to ... Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my ... proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... had the chance to work with the actual machinery involved in ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009