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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... montage of pictures from Santa Fe, New Mexico, from a friend with whom I ... my partner Eric and I measured the brightness temperature of the sun at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  the center of the universe. With that context under our belts, we ... a group of students and professors to read a play in its entirety. At ... a long time. Essentially, one can do astronomy at every wavelength of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  one of us answered. One day, at the end of class, he told me that the ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and ... to Preston’s note. * * * Much of First Light takes place at Caltech

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  goals through the lens and trust of a shared background. Navigating New ... to talk about all sorts of things, from new hobbies we were learning to ... show them how easily a campus can feel like a home. At the end of the jam

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  on January 4th ahead of the new January 6th deadline.  Because we know ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  ones leap,  of course you leap. You look at your new world, a smear of ... packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me ... Of fire alarms at ungodly hours. 4 what it's worth, we've called EC

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... events (MedLinks, CSC Chinese new year banquet, Class of 2017 ring delivery

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  was also a chance to see brothers of the house at their best. Lots of ... universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... excerpts from a bunch of old stories: He jolted, sitting up straight at once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... New England Football Conference crown and were selected for the 2014 ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  courses on site at Jeju National University. Over the month of January, I ... industrial piercing that day and made sure I did not back out).  At the turn of ... over with - pushing me officially past the halfway point at MIT. (AHHH

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center, where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how ... A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  what kind of frat culture you are looking for MIT can offer you something ... getting at is that PKT is a mix of being able to have an awesome time when ... with their own interest, yet they all embody a spirit of brotherhood at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a ... time I spend on each one. Then I just kind of stared at the numbers. They ... ingredients per meal as opposed to the fifteen the New York Times cooking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... something to look forward to outside of the schoolwork which can seem at times

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005