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• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  understand the claim to not trust it and ignore like a 550, but if you have an 800, is it really fair that that is not even given a consideration? To ... at all happy about my SAT scores and felt a need to take the TOEFL in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... commented that perhaps I would like to someday become a professional plane

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were ... tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle for tickets. Olivia was a teenage wunderkind who had somehow managed to ... can't pinpoint a single instance that propelled me to do this. But I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... kind of means a lot to me. Not necessarily the literal institution; the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function that rotated the curve around a vertical axis to a create a 3D model with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... offered a job. it happened to be an infinitely more interesting company and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... ruffs reciting iambic pentameter at arm's length to a skull. Nothing could ... length. It took me a month to cut down what turns out to be Shakespeare

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... , and then eventually went to bed. It was a good day, quickly to be ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart ... Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact, his childhood aspiration was to become a professional baseball player

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... that feels to a parent (although other parents will instinctively

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a ... Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... a trip to Sparkles roller-skating was incomplete unless I tried, at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to ... officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... 't apply 500 times to MIT in a single year, or even in your lifetime, so it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  telling him. Branding is important. You need to come up with a rap name ... , so I decided to give a better response. "Okay, how about people who ... dehumanizing to reduce anybody to such a label. Okay, but maybe I'm taking

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023