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• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  ’m stupid for asking so many questions? How can I ration the number of ... should I talk to my friends from high-school?  When should I get a UROP ... decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put ... bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they ... . It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  with a friend." " In my moments of clarity I can ask myself what ... saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... . Thanksgiving break finished off a stressful week. After waking up from a pie

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... ." Regardless of where you go for the book release, it's sure to be a very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  a forged leaf on the end. "I can see you mentally taking notes for ... a single orange bead. You can't quite see the piece, just guess where ... 'll nick it. I was getting a feel for cutting in just the right amount, so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  letting us know one way or the other. Can you tell me where I am on the ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... take from the waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I know some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... this as an event during CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) where anyone can ... On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now ... very differently for a similar example, here’s an instance where one ... play itself, though there are a few other things which i think are worth

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a ... class one day and told her what I thought. I also asked for a job. The ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  thrive and succeed at MIT.   I took the subject tests. Can I submit ... for tests they wouldn't have to take for us, especially during a public ... as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult ... (unintended) green hair for a month. It looked like I had moldy hair. That was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... happy?” She’s cool, and she knows it. It’s a simple thing for her. I hate ... beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  until 3 am. on wednesday night, i hang out with people from esp. it was a ... thursday, i go to mit mental health for my appointment. we talk for a little ... off for a while because i was busy. i sleep at 3 am again. on friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... a sense of value from it. No algorithm or studying heuristic, I think ... justify my Wikipedia-based procrastination.) Where am I going with this? A

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  , Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a ... Mac. I can make a Windows machine go, and I can bumble around a *nix ... I was in college, I took a job working for Apple as a Campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes ... today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008