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• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... Groopman, himself a Bostonian - and was burning to return to it and continue ... , why he was headed to Boston - and so I found myself drawn into a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or ... one has the free time to write a Cornell spamming script.") The Cornell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... ’d just use this as an excuse to do a cool thing. Like Saeki said, it would ... and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  finals week to working a 7am-4pm engineering internship, spending hours ... person.  I really enjoy having a nice large desk to show off my cat ... bought a cactus from home depot to keep me company, but it's not the same

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... that Marco Antonio Solis? I went to a costume party on Halloween hosted ... to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem ... 're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... so a bunch of us wandered into Boston to check it out. While I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  pretty black one, also for $8. I worried for a while that, unbeknownst to me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... to light a clove cigarette as Brian '08 looks on. It was a huge cake

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... school to college transition less stressful and frenzied. If you are a member of the Class of 2009 and would like to request a one-year (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  lecture series (18.095 Mathematics Lecture Series) to a team of undergrads coming together and running a huge class (6.147 Battlecode) to a student ... -backed prizes. While Battlecode is about writing an AI to play a game, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I ... be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... ="116802" /] 10:00 - I BlueBike over to MIT Campus As MIT students, we get a ... to turn her 2.009 project, a sea turtle egg incubator, to be more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... -friendly floatation device on sale, which happened to cost $10.99 and contain a manhole ... into a maple tree, John cautiously decided to safetify its successor by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland ... come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision ... students; it felt surreal to share a meal with both the Chancellor and the VP

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... did give Rush a fair try may have been surprised to learn that MIT ... non-fraternity men. There are legitimate reasons not to pledge a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for ... a day recording his trip to Russia as American ambassador there. I was ... here . For all you lucky ones looking forward to a snow day tomorrow, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the ... anyone who doesn't know how to swim jump into a pool ten feet deep???" That ... intend to spend on the beach), followed by two days to shop and pack, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... the months to come. For example, next month I'll be attending a ... . Frequently, people assume that we get a several month long summer vacation like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... photos a short blurbs to show you all what I've been up to! Walter Lewin ... a special series of lectures, so I've been able to watch him live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012