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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... not?, my mind yelled—and began the tortuous visa process with the image

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... . Has life been perfect in the Alpha Phi House? Of course not and to say ... have been a part of throughout my time there. I have not enjoyed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  Arizona. lol. Not that I haven't performed well or worked hard, I have. But ... sentiments: *dislike* for not recognizing your own awesomeness, but *like ... 2016 who feel this way: you are incorrect. But you are not alone. See

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Maybe I should preface this by saying “do as I say, not as I do”. I ... I don’t fully comprehend. For me, IAP meant that I was rowing, working ... flexibility in the dates you can go, which may not happen again for awhile. For

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... you are and hate all the excess stuff you've got. Anyway, not long ... ! Upon arrival, we threw our campsite together and got to work on our first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P ... so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the ... was part of the left-over ones who could not eat or drink anything

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all ... not operate a motor vehicle until they're over 25 and in California? Or ... : “ . . . quantum theory was not created- or even definitively packaged- by one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  "ss" not "zz!" You know who doesn't care about apostrophes? A pirate ... shortest route from my house to my work was across a bay, I guess I'd see ... the town of Hull. "Why not just build three windmills then?" I asked. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  schedule. Oh, I'm not Jewish. My sophomore year they called me up on my ... . I don't remember whether or not this was the same one where we were ... entry. Really, I can't think of any student organization at MIT that works

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College ... cases, not because they have magical properties. If you can otherwise ... graduating class is not going to hurt you. Ben's entry made me smile because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  bases running around, though not necessarily in the same living groups ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply ... and left all the others blank. In line with the Hall Rush policy of not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... person works, too. I think professors are often under-utilized -- at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... because I had to, not because I wanted to. Eventually I get a call from my ... was not an enthused as I had hoped. "Kayode, you can't run to the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  Cooperative Society” (notably not?? an acronym)"]COOP[/annotation] close ... , not Harvard"]Harvard Bridge[/annotation] and continue onwards to Trader ... , ghost pepper chips that were not at all spicy, and a so-called “British

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... [annotation note="I know, not great, but she made it!"]our 3pm EST meeting was ... ever animated anything. Last, but not least, we learned that Angela hadn

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  airy, and Celeste conveys this through level design, not just new objects or different art. The game's incredibly fluid. I'm not sure I can ... works. And how can you talk about Celeste without talking about its

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college ... 'm experiencing so many different aspects of life and then working on assimilating ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  , but it's certainly not the only one with a great story. So I sent a ... may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  `m not back there yet (Boston next Monday!), I have trouble writing about ... up and up (and he gives lots of evidence- I`m not going to tackle this ... `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  true love is History. AP US History was not enough to quench my ... you still think that's not enough - cross-reg at Harvard! I think it ... science freaks and people who rather not see another literary analysis

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009