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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  school year, the class council announced its decision of a ring committee ... prior to the start of the school year. Finally, with all that said, all ... The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , and school is a pretty big part of life. But yes, awesome things have ... tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school, having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  ], [annotation note="Calculus 2"]18.02[/annotation], [annotation note="Tool Design, a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his ... note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  them! 6.046: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - I like this class a lot ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my life. So, there. I’m a big fan of Saturdays. I often have a PSET due

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  devious puzzle designers. Below are some of those outrageous intellectual ... novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... 's boring, because you've already solved both mysteries and are tired of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  September - November, and then grad school applications from November - now ... attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm ... minutes. I need one of these. 8:05 - 8:17 AM: Shower. 8:18 - 8:27 AM ... :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  came home from school, memorizing the basics of what I needed to do ... I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding. Many of us have big adventures and exciting weeks, and I do too, but most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016