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• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  perpetual state of running around and doing five things at once.   ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... . Well, that and bruises and scrapes and muscle soreness all over our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  Financial Aid and that’s great! Applications are handled through the ... applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few ... aid after February 15th and it will not hurt your chances of receiving

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  , with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective ... changes to the GIRs (General Institute Requirements). These are the sorts of ... opinions of all kinds about tradition and change. Today's MIT home page

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  up. In the past month, there have been moments when hope and joy have ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute, can be found here). You read, and ... A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... Phone, Treo, Blackjack, etc.. It takes literally two clicks and you could make a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  ), admitted by two (both local state schools), and waitlisted at one. I got off ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 ... sleep, eating many yummy things, and completed a 3000 piece puzzle. (sadly ... and more Cantonese words, haha - I have resolved to start learning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  .youtube.com/watch?v=ObQfChNMUvM I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised ... , shadowing two people give tours, and giving a practice tour of our own. And

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  she made a complete 180 degree turn to face the shore. And as soon as ... This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... distance, and as we approach, we realized it was a sea turtle! Because we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  Program), and the adjustment back to home life has been, as usual, greater ... , but there are exceptions to every rule, and mine is not being bothered ... ? Sometimes you miss the freshman boy next door barging in and asking you what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to ... and the court gets all muddy and before you know it your pants are wet and your shoes turn into a disgusting lake that your feet are just

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  last assignment. I've got one pset (8.04), one paper (biophysics) and two finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don ... What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  degrees from Berkeley and should be receiving his PhD from MIT in January ... Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  . And tour groups in Killian Court looked at it as they went by. Hacks ... something like graduation. *grin* Brian '08, Antonio '02, and Laura '04 are ... Hurricane Harbor, the water park. I really love intense water rides, and this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  parallel universe is living out each of a hundred different lives, and each ... my current life in this universe. and i suspect that having too much ... don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  my friends. We chose Hawai'i because it was close to my family and my ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... shop at Don Quijote, and then go back. By the time I'd get home, it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At ... the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine ... minutes). Despite the extremely packed state on the trains, Kenmore Square is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  you count Bermuda and the Bahamas, which I don't). This makes me very ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my ... travel experiences really were, and how little of world out there I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008