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• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... , you will learn a lot: fields you never knew existed, new lenses of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... about the other new member of the secret team: Margaret ’23. Margaret is ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... pretty cool, to be good at math. I hear that's sort of useful around here ... the decorations in the room. We even made an awesome new poster out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... a new pursuit that is worthy enough of becoming a story I tell other ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  King, Jr., weekend during IAP. Teams of people at MIT and people who just ... puzzles of puzzles, and there are also puzzles of puzzles of puzzles. At the ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... it:     At the time, I actually didn’t know that there was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... "mitt" then you will be stared at strangely, no joke. If all of this ... of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of 202 inscribed copies on New Years Day, 2002. On February 20th, 2002 ... , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New ... homework at my desk. Somehow, I’ll have to swap the idea of MIT for what is ... ) demoralized at my inability to solve problems with the grace or speed of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... the rest of me, smashed directly into the passenger side at about a 45 ... , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn' ... gave a decade-by-decade look at the history of the Institvte, and helped

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  the rumors and the misconceptions, to unwind and have buckets of fun at ... Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten ... reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... of pranks. Not all pranks are hacks. Not all hacking is pulling hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005