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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually ... inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  , or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or boring, but, if you take ... too. For right now, we just ask that you give it time and have a little

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  it. Hindsight is 20/20. I think more than 1000 students get a 1600 on ... ? Numbers are one thing but there are a lot of other important things that ... program or the college you want to enter. MIT is no piece of cake, so just

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  plane home to california. i had a nagging sense that there were lots of ... someone treats you kindly it only means they are a kind person, and if ... recognizing this, everywhere, in my friends' goodness, how much of it there is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  already entered my mind. And we all know from Inception, an idea is a ... , I still watched them occasionally. So you can probably imagine how ... can see from developments like MIT and Harvard’s edX that education is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date ... Palindrome Story: 2002 is a collaboratively-authored narrative palindrome ... -11-2002) 2002 was published as an illustrated book. A palindrome is a text in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... campus grounds right now. I spotted a clump and guessed there were a ... ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  verify that you will receive a decision on the 16th, you should visit ... reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link. There is a similar link for forgotten usernames. If you're having trouble

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  tell us something. Can you guess what it might be? ... As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... professors, and I think this is 100% true. There are so many opportunities

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... about in the blogs all year (me included). You can follow Ben's blog for ... Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the ... you can, take on the Vermonster.   Watch a dozen or so ... with trees.   Subsequently wonder how it is that you never

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  discover a whole new territory. Make your mark in whatever way you can - on ... 's the way life is. The real world is so much bigger than what you know now ... . Take advantage of every opportunity you can find to pursue what matters

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  academic merit, and the most important factor is "a student's outstanding ... It might seem like you've been doing nothing but filling out forms for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  on the internet so I feel accomplished" moments. Are you ready? Can you ... Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight ... stars. We're going to turn this thing into a YouTube phenomenon, alright

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful ... some time visiting with her there. Hi grandma! (She reads this, you all should say hi too, she's a nice lady! You'd like her.) After that it was

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009