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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority, but everyone who goes to MIT is a person, and people need sleep, and

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a ... mostly we wanted it to tell a story of what our community really loves

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have to find Adam and drag him back to his computer -- he got a two-day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... school has sent a hardcopy transcript, you are still required to submit the ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... a plane to California for the Ivy-Plus conference. This conference

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the ... zonotope is a word, but wants to correct zonotopal to Zootopia."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to ... the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was ... I really wanted it to pay off. I put a piece of myself into that ... . And a part of me wanted to stop writing entirely for a month. I thought

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... the camera to "night vision" for a evening shot, with the characters ... ! We were told that we would have two and a half hours to make the movie

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy ... management skills of a chimpanzee on rollerblades. But it all comes down to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  automatically pull all blog entries related to a given topic into the left ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand ... hell it means to "be a mathematician". I felt like this would be the only

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ...  [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get your ... If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don ... around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class ... this summer! About a week after I initially visited Hasbro I decided to submit a resume to their modeling department. After a short wait, a road

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012