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• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this ... beautiful, though not necessarily tangible, to their lives.” Alia decided to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... .001 lecture from hell. I’m not even joking. So you know how the least fun part ... the most absurd algebraic manipulation I have ever seen. (I’m not even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... , having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Central Park (where, much to my dismay, we did not spot any celebrities) 2 ... downtown Monday (avec Sam) a lunch at a cute French buffet near work a ... thanks to Vincent and Laura for being our NYC "experts" -- her word, not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  comprehensive 1.5-hour not-really-but-sort-of final. I was super-stressed about it ... the pockets of my lab coat. (I work with mice, and I love them. Rats are ... minutes late, stressed and worried and not terribly well-prepared. And the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  they request recs from you. Of course the students will not be penalized ... write wonderful and heartfelt recs, who invest not the aforementioned few ... work. Enjoy these next few weeks and don't stress, my friends; mid

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  'm thinking of all the work I should be doing instead (which is something I ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we ... like take classes. Not so at MIT, buddy! Just because I was exhausted and ... Works!" potato chips are amazing. And probably of the devil.  

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  week. They will not always be on Tuesday so that those of you who have ... of 75 C. Because I'm twelve (years old, not the course), I did enjoy ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  -group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups ... : Coffeemate explosion (not really a hack but whatever) Date: Every year during ... Preview Weekend 2003 Group: Either WHO or cross-group, I'm not sure So yeah

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  be applying to graduate school this fall, I'm not entirely psyched ... research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... basketball. No, we do not cheer for the chess club, although we would cheer for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... should not be the primary way kids learn to write," said Wayne Camara, vice ... high score, it was not as significant as Dr. Perelman stated. Graders

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but ... chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not ... them. (And those are just the ones on my walk to work, and just the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... ? I love it out here. And it's not just about having nice things to look ... famous work) just might be my favorite place on earth - in the warmer

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... ="which i'm also not very good at, but i love it so much that i can transcend ... /externship – 200% complete! Gonna give myself some extra credit here cause I worked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  to know you. Though the interview is optional, it is a great chance not ... interview. Our current process does not require you to do this. After you ... application. However, even though you do not need to initiate the email with

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  your algorithms statistical background to understand most not too niche ... , breaking them down, seeing where things fail and where they work, to develop ... physics at some point, even if I'm not a physics major. But I felt like

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  and not put my feet down. My friends worked at a pool, and I know that I ... swim test not being required. If you take the PE Courses of Fencing ... work as a Space Pirate in The Martian"]MIT Pirating Certificate

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023