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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that ... winter at the very least. Admission was just 10,000 won, which is a little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  ’s important to understand how your foot is actually coming in contact with the ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... bone or muscle is convenient for us now is not the same as a statement

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... pointers on how to find a date, things to discuss with your date, etc. They

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  , "Whoa, one of the girls in the third photo from the top is wearing a ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions ... another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  the time -- this is before there was such a thing as the App Store ... making the right decision in choosing MIT. This was a peer group that was ... wouldn't you know it, I still keep in touch with a few of them. And I would

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  in me. It is a space of gentleness, optimism, and unfamiliar trust ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... 's library and the number of problems in their life. I developed a general

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  science at math is flimsy at best. I slept eight or nine hours a night in ... in a place as unusual as wonderful as MIT is that you lose perspective ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  love so much is that a ghost always haunts the people in the house. In ... home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more ... Waller and Miles Davis and also how it's been tough work making a living ... over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  a real meal in days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and ... .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  holding the PVC pipe like a gun/cannon is THAT creative, but I thought it ... how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends ... myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer ... in general?) Do you believe someone could be rejected from a school ... use them as the latter is, in my opinion, not terribly ethical

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... Cafe." And Vicki added, "Veggie Planet in Harvard Square is a tiny hole-in ... see is how you are a good match with MIT, and usually how you spend your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan ... later in the week while eyeballing the cook time and it turned out much ... dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... more artsy, and a lot are somewhere in between. But everyone does ... as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... a long and detailed adventure, we now have a much more personalized ... feels like a room. You know, one that people live in.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... ! NARUTO! Ok, so I watched Naruto a bit in undergrad, but then I kind of fell ... , and I started thinking about Naruto and how he would have reacted in my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  cheers is a number. The members shout out the digits of pi. As in the ratio ... practice is every day between 5 and 7 p.m., a sacrosanct time on campus in ... -needed sanctioned recess. In the New England Football Conference, which is a combined

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009