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• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  friends as possible Waterproof gloves that do not need to be microwaved ... work. You can split your workforce into half brick-makers and half ... : Get back to work So, it turns out it’s very possible to make an igloo

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody ... correct spelling is chemistry, not chemsitry. History, not histry or ... give a lot of people trouble - it's physics, not pyhsics; physiology, not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for ... interview will be waived, and your application will not be adversely affected. The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  listening to music. Is that bad? I don’t know. I just know that I’d rather not ... always too busy distracting myself from being bored by work or the lack of ... show is awesome! It portrays Superman not as the hundred

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... After getting the chicks, my parents set to work building a pretty massive ... , they were too cute not to love. The chicks hopped around, made little

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... you, Class of 2022! 700+ events! Not much to add here, other than ... to give up and not even apply for the host lottery. This might not seem

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  you a definitive tip for not failing five Harvard classes (which does not apply to Harvard students, unfortunately). Another benefit of cross ... professor not only wrote our textbook but also shared his yet unpublished

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... the bag. Ok, not really something you can bring, but be aware that you ... pillow? A blanket? Is the room going to be steamy or chilly? What not to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  you one thing—they’ll be anything but smooth. While working on this new ... for a bit, through the HSSP program, but that’s still not clear at the moment. I do know I’m excited for the summer—not just for the nice respite

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  astrophysicists of our time (whether or not most of them read it is another question ... , whose astronomy class I will probably take next year, not only wrote back ... , Kip mentioned that he's working on a sci-fi movie with Spielberg based

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  “Approximately-convincing-but-not-really-correct math because I didn't actually ... will not go unheeded: it was Saturday. It came after a Friday. This ... . Why not run? So I grabbed a map. And chucked some spare change and a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  ran fast and still made it into the photograph, although not as ... working LCD monitor on Reuse and immediately ran down Massachusetts Avenue ... AM on exam day, my course administrator was (I kid you not) giving away

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding ... the end of this tunnel of a room which does not allow very much light

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Boning: It's also often good not to align completely with industry needs ... "stay-ta" not "stah-ta"): Founder of Analog Devices. Irwin Jacobs (Ph ... -profit consortium that generally works to advance the US semiconductor industry. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer ... working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others ... each member of the MIT community the ability and passion for working
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  decided to share some (but definitely not all) of the highlights, explain how I got them, and why/why not I'm keeping them.   Tie ... work and couldn't make it anyway (hence the plain white one). Tie

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... , was actually redrawn and not lifted directly explaining why our ... tetazoo quoteboard) a country is not safe. a husband is not safe. 10 miles

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  sober. [annotation note="I am not even joking. The amount of philosophy ... the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... hang out, not put all 30 miles behind me as fast as I could. We walked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  right here on campus in Maseeh Hall: (Really, this guy did not know ... saying certain things right, but they were so wrong! Now it's not so much ... 't know any Chinese (not even 你好 - nihao!) before coming to MIT. Now, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013