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• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a ... tomorrow Studying for my 5.12 (organic chemistry) test on Wednesday ... meeting to work on a game I'm helping write for the Assassins' Guild

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... you have a 220 on your math SAT. You know when you're at a wedding and someone has a little too much wine and gets up on stage and tries to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  ," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating ... or turn in important forms on a computer or something, but then again ... rooms for more than 30 minutes each term if they didn't have to run over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  students. While I could survive on Anna's Taqueria and get all the major food ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... portfolio. Oh boy! It's a sour cream crust! Still on MIT time, Sam's Mom and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... department number. Who needs sleep? Me!) First, about the football game on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  hosted the image on http://photobucket.com/ *hangs head in shame* But never fear! This is only a temporary solution. I am still working on the ... the design is also a work in progress. I'll be working on the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The ... American Independent Film Festival at MIT, since I was on the West Coast at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  ten minutes and it should be around that area somewhere." And so I walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  ’s meeting to try to get you a few minutes of his time after he finishes Wait around for ten minutes as the professor finishes his meeting FINALLY meet ... the door and greets you Ask him if he has a few minutes to spare, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were ... roommates was also on campus for IAP, so we cooked a bit together. We made quesadillas with the stove turned on all the way — inadvisable, but much more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  sounded together. (TWO: Giving up on stepping around puddles, my socks ... . Later I’d go up close on a sunny day, note the trusses (more bronze than ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Europe. I spent my days capturing the effect of surface tension on ... , munching on macarons. The following summer I obtained a PSC Fellowship to spend 3 months working on a portable water project in the small community

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list ... Wellesley Go clubbing on Landsdowne Street Buy clothes at the Garment district ... New England clam chowder Walk the Freedom Trail Go on a Boston Harbor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  /petition, coming up on march 9th"]Add Date[/annotation] quickly approaches. My ... teaching relies on the assumption that your materials are mostly homogenous ... on how different components with different properties work together in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in scrubs, and pretend that I was on Grey's Anatomy. My preceptor was Dr. Lee ... unofficial Course XIX still lives on to the present day). I met Dr. Lee last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sleep at all? I don't sleep much: maybe 5-7 hrs on weekdays and 7-9 on ... the same term or something. I'm not on speed. This semester is the only ... get really good marks in Physics (Maj.) Depends on how smart you are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  in this situation, MIT Admissions is willing to give an extension on ... at MIT?" I was, on the whole, very happy with my teachers at MIT. (Also ... us to know what is GMO and what is not. He added that many college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes long. The class met once a week, on ... five minutes had passed. It felt like sleep would never come. Once I fell asleep, though, dreams took over. On occasion, I would wake up from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... I experienced when I got on campus. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget ... year, I’m taking on a slightly different role. A smile forms on my face

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018