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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  a bridge or oil well was under too much pressure before it fractured ... 've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic ... memory phenomena emerges. We want to find how simple may a system be so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  though it is definitely not normal to cough that much. I wasn't giving ... much, but it's a start. I've capped myself at where I am. No more time ... 'm anxious I just swear and groan a lot. Caroline is just pure anxiety and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  appreciated until a few days ago - namely, how MIT ends up attracting some very ... I wait a million years I'm not going to have very much junk." "This ... something else is actually a different object." "Don't worry, it will get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  can aggressively remind you of how awesome a person you are, and how the ... bad? I’ll give you an analogy: MIT is, as I’m sure you know, hard. A ... uncertainty, in itself, is psychologically agonizing. Patience is a rare virtue

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  Bombergiving is a potluck event and yearly tradition of [annotation note= "we ... lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how ... dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first ... much faster than I need to be going at this point in the walk, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a ... , and no set program for students to follow. 42 is a physical space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... that you accept and move on with. Getting into college is a big deal, but ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also require
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much ... , dorm residents would be fined if they so much as stuck a tack in the wall ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are ... Buford about how he left his job as a writer to work under Mario Bartoli at ... wanted was to learn how to cook in a professional kitchen. Long story

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of ... This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... section[/annotation] is “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (lyrics) by Mike Posner

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  , Mirchi) Above anything else, Mirchi is a family! We spend so much time ... is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state Punjab; it’s lit and so is this team! MIT Mirchi — a Bollywood fusion

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... + years ago (12/13/14, actually, which is a cool date) about my MIT decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  -D/CI-H and a small, advanced class. It is not an easy class, and Manning is ... recitations (or tutorials, in a class that has them). Pretty much any department ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  : [caption id="attachment_59233" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] there is a ... ; Spotify also gave some interesting stats on how much you stan your favorite ... At this point, Blogger Wrapped posts are sort of becoming a tradition

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  Friday? This is weeked was a great example of how you can accomplish so ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006