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• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... -ish commune full of bright colors, carpentry, and cooking. The cooking is a big ... th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  research, and really believe that it has a positive impact on the world. But ... tired and sad that I would have to give up work-life balance to pursue the ... a week, and maintain the sort of schedule I would have gotten used to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... road and get a high-five from one of the hundreds of people there. That ... 've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  an interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were ... 're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really liked this sign, and think that we should adopt the funky building thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  weekends, and comes with a money-back guarantee that you’ll gain the Freshman 15 in less than a month. But the problem with meal plans is that they ... $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which ... fall under the A/B/C/No Record grading system that second semester freshmen are privy too. The greatest advantage to Early Sophomore Standing is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... , cutting off the end of a roll of film, fastening that film to a developing ... digital photographer, through and through. This is what I do after a day of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  to do, and as a result I realized that there is no way in Hell that I would ever want to be a chemist. I'm sure that there are some people out ... could be sure that the professor wouldn't be there to see me. Not that he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... notice is that "the two weeks before finals and graduation" is officially ... realize is that some of these things are outdated. There is no longer a rock

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... button-making Warning: this part is going to start off happy, and end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  ”, and I’d hoped that there’d be more to them than that. The lectures cover ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... anyway. As a result, the class is much more open-ended and student

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  major is not the same as a Government major—the former is a social science ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... ." _______________________________ You may be surprised that MIT has a thriving HASS (Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... is that everything is computerized, and if you miss the deadline by

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... . #2 - This is why I chose to go to MIT. (Well, one of the reasons.) #17 ... Bridge for a day to film 21? (More on the movie itself later.) #35 - Wait

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  hour there...The boat leaves from Long Wharf, which is a ~10 minute walk ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no ... , we've kept them the same as the last few years, to wit: We know you ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On ... !!!!  BLACKHOLE!!!! And that folks, is what will happen if you break your ... class of 2013, the government shutdown, and a host of millions of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  physics. Awesome, I picked a major that essentially is everything that I ... . Freshman Year: What? You mean the horizontal component down the ramp is a ... with a spring, a pendulum attached to the cart, a force applied to the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008