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• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... taking pictures of sweaty people for future blackmail purposes. It

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  . Bryan, what are you doing today? I'm going to GRAD SCHOOL! I surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  school begins September 18. I'll be taking a few classes (at least one of ... grad/family dorm on the very west end of campus, tomorrow (omg so excited). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  . Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some ... campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  Massachusetts jury duty during the first week of school. Stay tuned for an ... ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  after achieving the goal of making it through high school alive, making it ... thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "mentorship" phase of the "high school research mentorship program," so things ... the oft-quoted line of Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  , being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  beginning of school year B) Working in Stud5 (7-9) I then studied/worked in ... of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  teaching abroad program! All of my weekdays were spent teaching at local schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a ... or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... . Just like the teachers you’ve asked for letters of recommendation (you

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  finishing something I thought I couldn’t. School is kind of like that, too. I ... , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping ... worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period ... ago, before winter break -- and a few days before all of you Early

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015