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• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole city opened up to you that's only a short bus ride away. If you don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  where I grew up! I decided to start the trip early and hang out with the ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a ... (my Mom recently got a Wii at her retirement party), and headed to bed

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high ... want to amplify his presence within the narrative. A fact that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... cake withou flour. So, I had to apply to a college abroad, and MIT was my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing ... and duly put a check next to the “Theorize ... , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  another 10+ hour pursuit, was just not wanting to make a rash decision. “I ... where I probably wouldn’t be able to pass and should just drop it. I think ... we’d need to make a decision as opposed to having our decision be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... Scuti became the first person in human history to beat tetris. It’s a ... , Youtube started recommending a live streamer to me named Fractal161. Little

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps into the kitchen to take a break. Was it a late lunch? An early ... was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the ... Cambridge) but with twice the space. Choosing to move here was likely a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... opportunity to visit the MIT Literary Society, where I met students who were ... questions and working hard - even though the weekend is normally a chance to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is ... to a snowstorm. The roads have not been plowed nor salted. I slide all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  . Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering ... summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college application ... , rebuilding a car, traveling to Europe or Quebec or New York, or whatever else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... . To anyone reading this, it gets lighter. I will give you a short ... journey. I'm growing my hair out. I'm applying to a lot of things and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... readings, and a reflection on the semester. Two classes down, two to go. Now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the ... particular, she wants poverty to occupy a more prominent space in MIT’s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... ). This October, I bought several pumpkins I keep vowing to bake, a few from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... maturation. You only need to sit in a poetry class, people-watch at a few ... friends, to realize that people are, well, complicated. We're a pretty

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... right. Eyes on the Frisbee, I began to run sideways. BAM. Crashed into a ... from my 4th floor room in New House (a dorm with no elevator) to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the ... all the recruits attend. All the recruits and all the faculty head to a ... a bus to Palo Alto. I go to dinner at the home of leftcoast mom, a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  know, people tend to ask the bloggers a lot if the admissions officers ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008