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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  's accurate, maybe not broad." And with that, he disappeared (I actually have no ... 't. This guy has serious magical powers. I'm not kidding.) So, I got my dose ... it obvious what did or did not contribute to the overall flow. Another

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  , that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting ... materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... Washington D.C. trip) was pi day, March 14th, 2012.  I remember this not only

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  : And the class was something like this: (Ok, not exactly like that, but ... SWEET tiger platies! And various plants. Yep. I got fish. Not as ... awesome part, though, is that I'm allowed to keep these fish in my dorm. Not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... , Coach Paterno, Coach Pete, and Coach Kate. Not only did they drive us all around Iowa and put up with our nonsense all weekend, but they worked

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  manager is in charge of dorm maintanence.) He told us the fridge was working ... campus was just not snow. It was slushy gross wet stuff that pretended to ... only a few for the blog. We are warned not to continue forward, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  was great. It is not always possible, as our alumni do work and have ... Lidle's plane crash. Regis is not to far from the site of the crash, so ... students who are not; we don't make exceptions for legacies, or for athletes

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  my first few days of class at MIT this term. I'm not quite as thorough ... little bit disappointed to find out that this class was not taught by Frau ... work with us more intensively in smaller groups on our minuets and lieder

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . =) Since I don't have any design experience, it's not like I'm responsible ... here* and just got into the class now. Not only that, I wasn't expecting ... essays or research papers. But my writing tutor just worked her magic and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  . I'm not exactly sure "why bacon" -- but it was pretty tasty! People ... a Professor, get a lab and start work? I've always been very ... mathematical to me. But maybe he's just not showing the math, and just showing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  am not sure how many transfer applicants get in and what the admissions ... dropping out and working or joing the army. I was accepted early action at ... skills are not very good and I don't know how to write such code. I see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  to judge if you're convinced or not :P I will start by saying that I am ... works -- and that this represents my cabinet at its fullest point, since I ... double-stacked like this. Perhaps I am not making the anti-hoarding case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  take an airplane the rest of the way. Hour 0: I am not on a train. I ... color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready/not ... (sorry not sorry for the pun). We were both faced with that infamous letter ... ’t get the “yes” we had hoped for and worked for for so long. It felt like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  had not moved on with their lives. The implication was that they should be doing something more significant than working in admissions. Ms. Dai ... her son would have fun even if he chose not to go Greek. "Pure joy came

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and ... back and watching a really good show. Alex Hirsch is supposedly working

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the fact that not a single one of them was a pre-frosh. In a way, it was ... . Not necessarily by choice— the election process did involve moderate ... and not at all reflective of our general government process lol

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  that it's the journey that matters and not the grade. It's a beautiful ... change something we worked so hard on. But if we didn't take those steps ... everything." Failure is not the antithesis of progress, or even success. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  how to tell a story not just with words but intonation, pacing, body ... a second.” We did, and we did not laugh until the bag-searchers had ... felt the weight of all of our work, how much time and effort had been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... respect to undergraduate life at MIT only; I'm not saying I've got this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  -hopping in Europe, where ‘home’ was not the bed I slept in but the backpack ... ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... working on UROPs or internships. I had my own room, furnished with my own

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021