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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  high school clubs for the sake of involvement. I’ve learned to focus on ... for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... work outside of academics. The report also shows differences among the responses of white women, Asian women, and underrepresented minority women

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  School at the Art Institute of Indianapolis at this afternoon reception in ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, [2] and I'm one of the writers, and I ... happening next week, and it's not even written yet, well it kind of is ... is busy too, which is why it's behind schedule, which is also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  " "Best cooked meat I’ve had all school year." "Amazing people" "Yes ... Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  both of them. quinn was my partner in crime when it came to high school ... mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it's been almost ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , next weekend could be our last match of the school year. We’ll be saying ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... . I asked some people what they were doing over IAP to show some of ... styles and also learn about the history of Chinese calligraphy. you make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  morning shrine early days in senior fall

  

  made at this school, overhears and interjects with an exaggerated sigh of ... this morning i was awake at 6am. on the other end of one of those ... to mush and past it's point of productivity, and i tell myself that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 15, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the ... , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017