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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's good for your productivity. Eat your meals in the dining hall. A day ... .  From the letters I would write for my grandparents overseas in elementary ... executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... train in Kenmore and go basically anywhere short of Rhode Island for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  major in Course 2. And at this point, for my intro project, I met the ... better for an object to be more aerodynamic? Are bullet trains better than the excuses for trains we have in the US? [annotation note="answer: yes

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... are an extra imaginative type sleep deprived person like I was last

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  day for residents who wanted to cram in a hot breakfast as well as last ... the Infinite Corridor to assist the Laboratory for Chocolate Science in ... is how I learned that Matt McGann has a giant log in his room for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... , I was rather less prepared for the return trip. I flew back in jeans ... an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  ’ve failed the swim test in front of an awkward crowd. Then I’d delay it until ... appreciated the views, and took pictures for the blogs. Even though I wasn’t an ... not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  in time for this post. Some drafts tried to give advice for incoming ... . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  the Above. (And yes, the capital letters were critical for emphasis in ... don't know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I ... , watching DVDs, and generally bemoaning the fact that school has, in fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... . There were 8 admitted students in the central Texas area, plus an admitted ... such people in the first place), it is also an incredibly people friendly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come up with cute names for everything else I'm doing, too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  out. Based on these findings and priors, our goals for this redesign include: making it really easy to find what you are looking for ... site, for example -- but a pretty similar look and feel. Many of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... received an email about civic engagement at MIT. Passions were high on both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  in student life seem to indicate an administrative preference for an ... 1931. In 1939, MIT purchased an apartment building and converted it into ... —some based on seniority, others based on how long an individual had lived in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  TOEFL." You can definitely submit test scores in January for regular ... accepted EA, should I send in anything more to give my app. another push for ... bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  well. Then I can make something up in order to not look like an idiot ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... other distra- I mean, classmates around for help. I'm a firm believer in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  guys! Sam Lord (the new regional chair for Hartford EC's) and I had an ... Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005