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• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  class about the art of creating electrical devices which use power ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at ... 've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... person. and honestly, finding these means of self-care so early in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14 ... this semester, but i thought the "most boring thing ever" was kind of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... -crushing boredom is shakier than you’d expect). 2.) Watched the entire series of

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading ... I actually liked reading the textbook. We'd watch a whole bunch of ... may have heard of. Towards the end of the year, we also got a chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  their business. Here is a tentative schedule of the event: Tuesday ... toys. ElectroPlushies, his first push into the world of toy creation, are ... about the attached picture. : ) It reminds me a bit of the song

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... aspects of academic life. The thing about tests is not really that they're hard. They just kind of suck. You can spend three hours the night before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... Enlightening: History through the Eyes of the Potato from TED-Ed Einstein

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and the results of any external examinations, such as the International ... The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U.S. school systems
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  out the pitfalls of others. It seems like working with other people ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... volleyball, and just goofing around with the team with 30 of us packed into one ... ’s grandma on the speaker. Her grandma sounded so proud of our coach and so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... with the professor of my favorite technical class from last semester to ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... running all the way to the Museum of Science by the Charles just to catch up ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... of the semester than the beginning), and 2.004 was just, well there ... to take the time to evaluate where I was in each of these two classes

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and ... , they broke up during her junior year of college. Near the end of her time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... nisha sort of had the right idea here"]foaming at the mouth, “OMIGOD ... 8 hours of sleep every day to be functional in the slightest in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless ... have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  the door, especially while I was napping. 4) An earlier version of the secret knock consisted of banging the top of the door really hard. Another ... technical explanation of his door (the "iDoor") on his blog, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009