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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I ... pitch. After every pitch 5 minutes questions by a panel of fellow ... toy design. When not working on school work it's reasonable to assume

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... use without being in danger of my setting them on fire. Oh. Right. Pre ... ten minutes and lecture us about how HORRIBLE our test scores were and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a ... same things, you can focus on the new stuff you have to make time for. 2 ... 'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus ... one on my flight back to Boston. So I wasn't too surprised when, just ... conversation that lasted for a good fifteen minutes, that meandered from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  , TERRIBLE showers. They have absolutely no pressure, so the water dribbles on ... with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... problem. Guys on my hall make arrangements to stay at their fraternities

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight ... , Spaghetti Warehouse. Me and my brothers. The little one on the far left is

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  friends, and went last-minute shopping this afternoon with my little brother ... or may not be aware, the major you write down on your MIT application ... choosing a major section on their website. Additionally, all of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  Engineers" on kazoo on the way down. The guy coming down from the fifth floor ... the entire show 30 minutes before the beginning of the game. In high ... alone. We've got a former piccolist or something on trombone. We really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  shops here in Boston and Cambridge and give you the dish on what's hot and what's cold. Dinner ended a little late on Saturday, and I wasn't able to visit Toscanini's on Mass. Ave, but fear not, there was a Shaw's across

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  more day, and she said yes. So I flew home on the 23rd. On the flight, I ... studied hard for the biology exam right up until the last minute, and passed ... immediately afterwards, I went home to Next House to pack my carry-on and leave

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... could get my hands on. I loved (and love) learning with every fiber of my ... about was the searing heat of the tears on my face. You can’t really see

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... ! i went on a cloudy Friday and holy SHIT it was fun. we started by ... minutes and we were left with a brilliant blue sky. actually being in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... minutes away from Boston, feel like more of a tourist here than i did in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  spend their windfall on travelling abroad, working an externship, or ... stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run-on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... reminding myself that, while MIT puts an emphasis on having technical skill ... presented this topic time and time again, I focused almost entirely on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  on wrong (but I might (so double-check everything)))). (Note that the ... are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own REX, were I to do it again or were I to do it on my lonesome. (When it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  enough already, but seriously: What the heck happened on far West Campus ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... gigabits per second on its own, so yeah, you could say that we at MIT have

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... 's Admissions Office. The first time I stepped foot on MIT's campus was for my job interview. I had gotten lost on my way in and called the admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011