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• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  . As such, I've started developing a plan for how to keep myself occupied ... how to do a bunch of 2.005 so I don't fail it next semester 3) Work on ... keep myself occupied. So that's it, the year is over, I have a 4.3 GPA

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shaye is a wannabe rockstar. Shaye: No I'm not! Yuan: Remember that girl ... 's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don ... Bryan when he's typing in his password. Yuan: Shouldn't we be telling

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would otherwise have just run off, but to be able to defend yourself in a situation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor. We are ... , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note ... schools in foreign countries was that a lot of them were international ... school, I discovered that the school library was built in the shape of a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  had a realization the other day that Cambridge is my home. I will always hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... sure it has been that way for the past two and a half years, but it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... felt. To me a foreign language was and is more than just the translation ... -5 hours a day. Not because I wanted a grade in the class, but because every

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... drivers only leave a stop if their bus is full, so it is an interesting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  (it's 6. That's it. The answer is 6*), getting in based on a fabrication ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... person I called, but I understand if we caught you off guard or in the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  attended Francis Polytechnic High School , which is a public school in Sun ... campus, I lived in La Casa Castellana (Spanish House), which is a ... will really fit in. MIT is a place for very talented people who want to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to ... chambers and filter bubbles. Wikipedia says:   A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... whole four hours) is just a Bad Idea. The weekend also consisted of a rat

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a puzzle. We called in like a gajillion different answer, but finally, WE GOT

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  self-confidence to pursue a career in biological research, but also a ... always welcoming and intellectually stimulating! The city: Kyoto is a ... Japan again, it is a cross-cultural and intellectual growth experience

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011