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• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... , sometimes Tufts or Boston University). Sometimes, these alums will band together to rent/buy a house as a group. And, as tradition goes, these nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is. Well, sorta. Meet Gedion:     Gedion is 21 Years Old and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season ... statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  and informal relationships among students, the Institute, and the ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage ... things like applying for funding and filling out reimbursement forms. Last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or midnight every night. And there were a lot more tests in high school! But

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

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a ... , because I'm moving back into my dorm. And most importantly, friends that I ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  policy development and institutions, and reviews normative and empirical ... come up with 179 results, and I've since filtered that list down to just ... select "easy" classes, and I think classes are easier when you are

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  figures who work with and against institutions that order society. You can ... and celebrate responsible disobedience: The Media Lab Disobedience Award ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... ’t hard: we cook for each other, which means that dinners are vegan, and I ... can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... , and you've been amazing through the whole thing. I've read every single one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  being this tired and this hosed and this abandoned by institutional ... I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18 ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment. Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  , as a 18 year resident of the state, always forget) and I highly ... the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually ... doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... as a summer camp that one might go to for fun and learning? Does the ... that more and more kids - no matter how talented and intelligent they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  course and they're only offering the half semester ones now, which I guess ... technicals and a CI-H, a writing intensive humanities class. It's a perfectly legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and ... competitive high schools, ran the college-admissions rat race, and kept running ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young ... Kim, Kelly Shaw, and Travis Williams, all graduate students in

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  . Sororities are Greek letter organizations that offer lifelong membership, and ... bimbos who spend all day having pillow fights and braiding each other ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006