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• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  tombstone for MacCon, the deceased MacGregor Convenience store. The 2020s are ... with Ethan[/caption]   A solidarity banner for the deceased ... for the past couple of days. IT's been wrecking me-- couldn't sleep in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013. Those fluffy dandruff-like powdery demons were cute for the first three ... for sticks for the arms, stones for the eyes and nose and buttons. At

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  there is more to your application than that, and MIT is looking for more ... away from the application (not past the deadline) but go for a walk, play ... summarize and capture the important things in your college application, and

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  the best! And shoutout to you too for reading my first blog post! I ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room, and found my roommate at his desk. After seeing my puzzled look, he said

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since ... ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not ... into, that [annotation note="last year, some alumni from the 70s not only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a ... the Boston Qualiflyer for Red Bull Paper Wings. If you haven't heard of ... would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... for science. However, it also stands apart from my other classes as the ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  -and-dirty method of looking for a mutation, the most obvious one being the sheer ... previously looked at the study questions for about half a second, that is. Don ... . Scientists then observed the circadian periods of all of the offspring, looking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new ... just for the sheer joy of it -- the better my grades became. I don ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  food for the BBQ. 40 hamburgers, 50 hot dogs, just as many buns ... air, falling over, grasping for the wall to stop the bouncing, and ... 7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... ?) Today was my DOFMH from the lab... I've only taken three days off this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still ... ) was rebracketing for playoffs; my team, MIT C, ended up right in the ... ="I only looked up the mi to km conversion after the drive and boy, was I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... list until the second week of May. What has the wait list looked like ... from the wait list? For example, if someone from state X or major Y

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  recommend looking through Kevin's pictures, he photographed the bunnies in ... ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  cause it's gay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 look at all the sugarrrrrr ... bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... connection with the nation--I’m just traveling, for once in my life. While ... values. For better or worse, it’s a simple fact that the world is more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  the left, me, Nicole, and Anji looking particularly cheery... And we ... Friday we perk up and get ready for the weekend! Together we're good at ... Liz for spring fraternity formals (right)! And for all the accidental

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

   This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... applying for the Match, check off that you are applying Early Action. You do ... use your QuestBridge application for that. In the Part 1, when you come

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  : you guys are amazing. Every year when the call for new bloggers goes out ... Boston ROTC events for 100+ midshipmen), a UROP at the Plasma Science and ... , looks forward to going through the application process with this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007