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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... and immediately broke into a deadly rash? Ha ha ha.” McGreevy sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  performing arts. I auditioned for (and made) two of MIT's excellent a capella ... that I liked my biology classes a lot, and made a class plan for a double-major. And then I stuck with it for the next six semesters, mostly out of sheer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  has been to a ZBT soiree with me) and try to eat a whole piece of ... MIT application and consequently, you may become involved with different ... only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect ... , so I posted it again. People caught on, and all of a sudden people were ... with the spreadsheet, there is now a FORM you MUST fill out if you want a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  (and huge crowds!) in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago (both the city and ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you are reading, thanks for all the hospitality and to my folks who took

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going ... snow if you're in Boston and just dealt with the most schizophrenic week

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  ), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview with her guidance counselor. Her parents and peers, often without knowing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  is completely snapped off) at 5:30, and there was already a line forming for like 3 blocks down a side street. At 6:45, after much scuffling ... , the store isn't bad - and yay for getting another free shirt. :)

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  . Unlike Paul, who was probably using his own computer, I am using a fancy ... rooms you have right now are completely temporary and you do not have the ... necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P ... My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I encountered my suitemate and moral compass Dizzle '09, just finishing up a 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  competitions for middle- and high-schoolers, culminating in a NASA ... coding.  Our group was especially pressed for time - and with so many ... player, and waited anxiously for a little over a week for the competition

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  for me, and I'm pretty happy with the way I'm doing things right now. I ... up early for school, took a nap after classes because I was too tired to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  and share items of interest with your friends and colleagues. For more ... of their evaluation of the report, and testified during a related ... development and implementation of mechanisms for risk-covering within its

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  member of our community the ability and passion to work collaboratively for ... formula for getting in, and that, for the people who work in our office, it ... guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with a wet towel and let sit for a few hours FILLING (VEGETARIAN ... (more fun with music and friends) keeping adding water and kneading

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Otsuchi with 8 other MIT students and the MISTI-Japan program manager for a ... stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... 's why I'm not yet a clean slate for my upcoming senior year. Also I have

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... , and Law After several semesters, I finally have a chance to take a class with Justin Steil, a lawyer, researcher, professor, paramedic... he

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  making a gorgeous flying Corn Dog, and concurrently spent that time with my ... and only having the fortune to know them for a year--or two years, or ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014