Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer/early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  . After an also-difficult sophomore year, here are some strategies I've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... 's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... class, there are slides posted, plus an extra notes sheet that has some of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius of 8 feet, we found that almost 13 cubic meters of snow were used in ... ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... , thanks for putting up with my ludicrous dance skills. See you in the fall! ... anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  (Floorpi) in East Campus! With East Campus having been closed for two years of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... opportunity to live here prior. Floorpi is unique in that it is the only floor

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  an ungodly hour for me to still be awake. When I have three tests in ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... tell me it's going to be okay. In an email sent out to the current MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  today. Charm School is an annual IAP event in it's 14th year where ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  we have enough information to make an informed decision.   All ... missing an official transcript. If this is the case, it's best to send us both if you can, but the transcript is the more important one for us

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  's rewarding. We've had an exam and two quizzes already, as well as three packets ... fine on everything, so that's good. I've also been fitting in some fun ... Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen

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

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... mentioned it before in her blog). Last spring I was the Membership Vice President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  activity in your intended field of study. We know that an interest in ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... game. "Ah look it's 10:45, now 7.5 minutes til we are halfway there from

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT the other day. I could ... definitely worth a visit. It was established to connect the community in

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... is no bonus for people who complete their application earlier. When we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010