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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  dress for a blizzard... If you're from a warm place and you are a ... too can prance around until you are delirious from the cold! Now that I ... lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  you can read below: With passion for both English and mathematics, I ... . Through poetry, I want to depict not only a narrative from a person of color ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... home, I sat in front of the computer for a good fifteen minutes ... , I went straight to bed and slept for a little bit and then I went to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... school's nominations spots. I spent a week preparing for my MIT interview ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this ... question. Just to give you a few ideas: if MIT hadn't admitted me, I think I ... caught up in. Definitely worth a look, even if it's from back in the day. ;-)

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  planning for the next day at night, every night. I needed to recuperate for a ... (a standard unit of measurement), and I come from a strong public ... cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... . Worse, around this time last year I missed two weeks of class because of a ... community can get a free flu shot by appointment with MIT Medical. There will

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  2008. It was a blast, I'm really glad I went. For those of you who won ... board: On March 5th I received an e-mail from Tamara '12. Hey ... . While I'm not a prefrosh, I do enjoy a good pillow fight every now and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this ... happen? I sought solace from some other friends and watched the events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Practical Chemistry) A full list of the Courses can be found here. Each class ... course material for A HECKLOAD of its courses for students all over the ... acclaimed Professor Lewin) During my freshman year, I took 18.02 (a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... indeed be a fun place to attend college. As for the interview, I'll have ... Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail ... amazed by this guy? Can I at least get his name from you?" Diana, I can do ... Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate ... can't really read it, but the white banner in this picture is for ... -ever Study Abroad Fair! When: Today, Wednesday, October 5th 2005, from 12 noon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... empty platitude or a piece of advice that only worked for me. I’ve talked ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this ... 'm actually getting a paycheck and have health insurance. Difference 2 - I am in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... it is definitely a rule that I have found to be true for me. The reason ... from time to time, and I will give this little tip in the form of a story

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let ... from? Anthropology can help identify new, people-centered approaches to ...  an example, I’ll discuss my own work with a performance of “The Merchant of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of ... sailing, suffered two blows to the head from a wayward mast, pretended to ... can't remember.), lost a pirate battle, had my lower left quadrant

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... where I wrote that div(McGreevy)= 4pi*(awesomeness/8.022). Clever, I know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009