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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... having one, or do you find that mornings in general are good? BEN: All of ... Best Picture to Annie Hall. But these are just from the third draft of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  . Here are some answers: Tom asked: "I was wondering, do you know anything ... typically freshman classes also offer tutoring for those who are struggling ... will u help me[?]" Well, I hope that my blog is doing that. :) Feel free

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  community are living in near MIT in a place we've dubbed "soft house," since ... watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... a big group, it's wonderful. Last Friday night, we made dumplings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... many of us there are, and how many people exist whose lives I never see although they are so closely parallel with my own. A lot of the reason why

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is ... their class. Here are some pictures they've shared: by Francisco P. '20 ... ; by Ryan P. '20  Over here in admissions, we are still finalizing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In ... format, but are usually necessary. My first approach is to comb through

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  before and those that will come after are. I’ve often said it gets harder ... class since the Class of 2012 are those whose applications I first ready when I joined the Admissions Office just five years ago. They are and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  . ,                                             How can I be so sure, you ask? The images you see above are ... really made me think about the world as a complex system, and it helps me ... . With the right mindset, questions are not unphanthomable--they're either

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... have any professor as a director or musical advisor. Techiya is made up ... go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... it home, however, are the colors of the sign. When yellow and red are ... 't put safety first. Scattered all around campus are little yellow boxes

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

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  performances. "One student asked me, 'Are you a princess' That made my day," she ... one of the recipients of the 2006 Hometown Hero awards. The awards are ... a presence about her that people are drawn to," he said. The Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  cards and reference sheets; a lot of my upper-division biology classes are ... sheet or a textbook isn't going to help you much, since tests are timed ... example, see problem 4 of this 7.03 Genetics test.) Critically, tests are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... group, are excited to have you here :) We at East Campus are especially ... . In particular, the people wearing the cowboy hats are around to give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  of Technology (MIT) this fall, where he will major in civil or ... going to Cambridge, where there is a friendly rivalry between MIT and ... McArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  experience this past Thursday where I got yelled at so badly I had a panic attack, my finances are struggling, and I am just the definition of the ... research of where to start delving into my comics journey and ultimately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  , where they are building a fort in the courtyard, paint murals on the walls ... to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... are coming back to me, and I’m rushing to write them all down, knowing I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... reason you’ve made up to justify that. It’s hard to say with confidence that perfectionism is purely evil, because I do believe there are cases

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  then I came back and continued my classes. And these are just the ones *I ... little bit: getting help is a bit of a leap of faith. You are trusting ... all fought for me and with me. And I made it through. Just like they all

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  holiday dinner. She made delectable potatoes and baked salmon (that she ... and made perfect sense,” one reviewer described. That’s how we settled ... . It was cheesy, badly made, but certainly “opened our eyes.” We may or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... to a five-story structure on which three Greek letters are barely ... carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013