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• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had ... house they're rehab-ing and paint new clapboards for the house. Given my acrophobia and just general disappointment in the way ladders are built, I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  : Last night, we made it all black and shiny again! In a bizarre effect ... looks transparent as she and Clayton '08 paint: In the meantime, the ... ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about ... passengers simply sit back and relax. The tunnel beneath the English Channel was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... cable, and my laptop. Now I can check not only if I have anything from MIT ... , and the letters M-I-T inside. looking forward to checking up on this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  Airport Terminal C Gate 28 31!!🤮🤮 Today was move-out day, and [annotation note="Housing and Residential Services, because why wouldn't we have an ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  . The months passed. Students who had loved LaVerde's graduated, and new freshman arrived to MIT, never having felt the warmth and tenderness (and ... hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i have lived longer, so i know more about the best way to walk, and i ... first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can ... complex 3D shapes, and I immediately fell in love with the art. Despite ... favourite examples of modular origami because it’s both fun to assemble and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the ... ="aligncenter" width="240"] And then I will create Skynet.[/caption] Desk work I got two jobs this summer: UROP in the day and desking at night. If you're a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes ... now that, once I graduated, I'd move to New York and would have to find ... dealing with problems, and more of having to worry about these kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  math and I’m tired   1:41 am: why don’t aquaporins have spec ... ± 0.6 (AQP4), 5.0 ± 0.4 (AQP5), and 0.25 ± 0.05 (MIP);”    2:14 am ... Grace and become a math major if someone gives me another aquaporin  

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  (alongside my fight or flight reflex). I grew convinced that I had COVID and ... weren't really concerned about it since they'd disinfected the house and ... -consciousness by an...panic attack...? regarding why I'd have COVID and my boyfriend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I ... something and how scary it can be to fail. Year upon year, as we build upon

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... not. Access it through your MyMIT and submit it by Feb. 15! Now, if you ... school doesn’t give out semester grades. Basically, just send us any and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  singleminded devotion and believed he would belong here more than anywhere else ... . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  us your midyear grades and anything new that has happened or will ... January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them ... you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the admissions decision. Surround yourself with friends and family or sugary treats and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty ... midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you ... . And it means that when something is actually urgent, you're prepared

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I’ve been attacking people at grocery stores and farmer’s markets around the ... concept of supporting local businesses, artists, and farmers. My all

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011