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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  rained for the majority of the week and everyone generally stayed indoors ... . While I rested most of the weekend, Sunday proved interesting. Join me for ... Sidney Street, the location of the ubiquitous Star Market and the Hotel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... ! Ruth's room before phase one of painting, with a fresh coat of Institvte White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People ... th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... staves made of PVC pipe covered in foam, which is covered in duct tape

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of ... . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say ... collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e ... The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  technically not mine or any of my family's but since we did live next door and this dog was capable of leaping tall buildings like Superman or just her ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... , nuances, and vibrant culture of MIT life through my phone calls. My mom has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... shiitake mushrooms and mixed vegetables (I was very proud of that one) and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... post of completely unsolicited application advice! Before I dive into ... , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the first sign of stress or discomfort. This usually looks like me spending ... Harvard, and I noticed they had a TON of the new Peach Pit Album. Like, way

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who ... ,[/annotation] receive grades, obtain letters of recommendation, or otherwise develop their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  gorgeous. I’ve been here before. None of the places I’ve walked so far are ... I’m actually living here, in the middle of it all, that I’m sleeping and cooking and stressing over psets while surrounded by all of this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  become a blogger, of course"]ever again[/annotation]! But, now comes the waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020