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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like ... you using their peripheral vision 5. When you see people in the hallway ... DID YOU KNOW? MIT undergraduate mathlete extraordinaire Reid Barton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  and fill out the recruit questionnaire that you can find online! For me ... work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community ... write killer essays that make you stand out in the application process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -signers? How long/short can the lease be? When's the earliest you can move in ... do people want singles/doubles etc? What locations are you looking in ... moving in? How long will your lease be? If you're finding something for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... from the lemon grove in nearby Cannes. La vie en bowls. (For those who ... juillet -- Bastille Day! (" 'Bastille.' It's French for 'Why are you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  else you can do with a microplane? Buy fresh parmesan, like in real ... dangerous tool you can have in your kitchen. What seems like an innocent tool ... content matters. You just can’t win. [caption id="attachment_60130" align

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your application profile, the little things you can do that can't hurt your chances ... things you should do before turning in any essay, so they're pretty common

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... the numbers around how money at MIT works can be found in the recently

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  it in 2021. my acceptance transferred over a year, which made for an excellent contingency plan. in my sophomore fall semester, I haphazardly ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... really inspiring - the idea that you can really do something with ... more confident in their abilities. What surprised you about the GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  palm pilot). You will notice that I look like a gigantic marshmallow in ... I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  not count). So here you go! This one's from 20.310 (Molecular, Cellular

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  Like Tetris? Like Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)? Now you can play ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13 and Leah Alpert '13, with hardware design from their Course 2 floormate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  simply, which has reminded me about myself. If you know me in real life ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

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

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  're researching over the summer, right? what are you researching?" i saw it in my ... . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  on rare earth elements, to be brief (more info in website!^^) If you ... can't read signs apparently. Anyway, you should be proud of me, because ... Montreal we did! (Joe even found a typo, can you spot it?) The montreal sign

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  meditating, to rolling maki sushi or baking bread – you can do it all in this ... career passions can be discovered. In Pilot 2021, you will interact with ... . Additionally, you can use the plan's built-in dining dollars in the community

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  the same space, so that between classes you can almost always count on ... higher. I can feel it in those unexpected can’t-stop-smiling experiences ... , well, high school. There’s only so much time you can spend together when

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  . Here we are, Baker 411, in December 2003. (You'll note I had a mustache ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked: "Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  , slowly count to ten, and open up your mind as wide as you can. You are ... in a wood cabin. As the raindrops patter on the window, you seek ... fairly incompetent in determining who you are or what you are capable of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  certain point I can't stand to sit at my desk chair in my dorm anymore, so I ... posted through, because why use Canvas when you can make yet another link ... it.   Sunday - Give Up I mean can you blame me? Sunday I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024