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• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  persistently. (Can you spot the bad pun? Hint: Sho!) You imagine a metaphor ... 's a harsh claim. Perhaps you might soften it down until it's fluffy like ... course, you can barely tell how wonderful of an idiom it makes just from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  may already be here. All of you must know that being a student is pretty ... . Enjoy it (you deserve to!). A deferral is not a “polite rejection” – I was ... the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  , sleep,) is a pretty big deal also. There have been many nights where I ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot ... well, maintaining one's sanity (and I hope you'll agree,) is also a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  like this: "You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce ... open their doors to any and every interested freshman. Much like CPW is a supersaturated version of MIT, so too is Rush a supersaturated version of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  classes? Aren’t you guys a technical school?” The answer to this is a ... I delete this gene, what will happen to my parasite? There is a ... interests. To be a student at MIT means you can have these totally different

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  a policy and of thousands of human beings. Repeal is not, however, a ... gratitude and appreciation for a country founded on a dream of fairness. I ... assure you that MIT is stepping up for our DACA students." In it, she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  me...!), and that other classes, including easy-A Harvard classes, can ... real MIT psets you can do, if you've got the itch... :) (Actually, I ... Well, Parents Weekend was last weekend, but my mom is unconventional

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... is hot. What you call stupidity, I call valuing a posteriori knowledge ... ?" One thing you learn about knowledge and learning is that a good portion

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  can use. graphene is also a quite sustainable material, so im especially ... , you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the ... (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  urban-ghetto texture of any of the dorms - this is a place you can imagine ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  that MIT is just a STEM school, there is a vibrant arts community here ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted ... such a cool perspective about the entertainment industry, where it is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which ... ="91808" /] There are lots of things I could tell you about this walk. I could tell you that this walk reminded me of the power of perseverance; that, a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  presentations in. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle is that you need a HASS ... you at MIT?"). But, I do feel that the HASS department is MIT's hidden ... taken one course other than the GIRs in my major (7.03). Is there an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  , A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  stuff you don't want to read about (I'm not a philosopher or a romance ... keep myself occupied. So that's it, the year is over, I have a 4.3 GPA ... "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can ... first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... class you'll be building a Robot, capital 'R', and competing against your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  process, but we'll let you know if anything changes. Meanwhile, there ... Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit humanitarian project to put ... MIT Media Lab. You can read more in thousands of articles across the web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  the line is, if you really believe in yourself there is nothing stopping ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... that this is not a statement about my entire high school. During my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016