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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  high school or town newspaper, etc. You may send these to us, either as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  wanted to do during the school year, without the weight of "oh why am I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  in high school and still remember most of the material, you can

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  president at her high school. In her position, she coordinated a canned food

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  the school year. So, how did the Open House visitors' performance stack

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the choir, played oboe in band and full orchestra, and participated in every musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  , and everyone else felt comfortable enough to dust off their high school

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  high school. Or a brain-teaser: "If a bear in Yosemite and one in Alaska

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  have any questions about anything I mentioned; Yay school!

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  in elementary school terms, when you were choosing teams for dodgeball

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  start feeling restless and just itch to draw. Back home, my school supply

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  ,” those who’ve never experienced my approach to school before might say

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  lectures on mitosis upteen times in high school. This was definitely the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT.” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  et Manus, our school's motto, which means "mind and hand." If learning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010