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• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on food, but buy a $5 coffee or smoothie every day anyways. it's probably

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  are involved with and mine is parent programs so I'm probably the most ... 'll be able to accompany your student next weekend. But before I do that ... weekend. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of 2014 didn't look familiar at all, as well as how much affection I felt ... point (I don't really know how this happened - I don't recall doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  homeland, I would lose a new life. To even imagine what the undocumented ... is very significant. After that, how can I give up? How can I stop just ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  , I learned (the hard way) how not to pronounce "Nevada" (hint: it's not ... I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  !"). Unfortunately, I would have had to run like an entire marathon to do that, so I ... movie I have ever seen. How the photographers got all these beautiful ... You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some ... wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low ... Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  our floor, will it get taken?" "Well, probably not, but how would you ... The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken ... them. One particularly interesting mailing list is called "Reuse." I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  where I would stay the night in case all the busses ran out of room ... (maybe) when they come out depending on how they came out. I don't think ... presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  is how he came back to me. Holy Turkey Batman! I looked around and ... around. Half of them would be wearing paper bag vests, construction paper ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  experience that I would rather not talk about. Restaurants took a huge hit due ... , as chef [annotation note="It’s embarrassing how much I go around being ... Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , and I collapse in a couch at a lounge. This was, in fact, how their quad ... about the competition, or college apps, or whatever. I asked how they were ... classmates any more, because they were all in college. How every time I hung

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  of downtown Boston. I knew that this semester would be particularly tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... decided that I would try and visit all of them across different weekends

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  previously unknown to vegetables. I didn’t try pickles but I heard they didn ... different cheese. Vinegar was drinkable. It had flavor. I liked it. I wanted to compare it to flavored vinegar but realized that my teeth would be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one. "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  6 (I can’t remember exactly how) and the rest of the dormitory is ... part of the community. I could appreciate how each of these places ... we all had a good laugh about it. But I also thought about how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• 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 ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of, in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... week, alright? I just couldn't feel any sympathy for how stressed and ... ,” “3D glasses,” “what the heck, I thought I knew how light worked,” I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010