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• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  'm pulling my weight in getfit@mit. With every sore leg, bruised foot, and ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to find that near the Boston University bridge, there are a couple of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... MIT different from other universities? How might you know whether or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... was offered $100,000 to start her own company based on her research ... whose haptic feedback cane won the grand prize in the Popular Science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100 ... the best weekends imaginable in the most mentally taxing and physically ... . Offer not valid to participants of this year's hunt. Hint: Signal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... Cirque De Demain ("The Worldwide Festival of the Circus of Tomorrow") in Paris. Surprise fact: as in this video, Jacob was originally scheduled to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... only fair. Plus, John '08 came by just as I was about to eat. I offered ... dinner for her roommate Adelaide a lot. (Adelaide does the dishes in return

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... you'll be happiest. 2.In one year, a lot will be different I can pretty much promise you that. Those who aren't offered admission won't be upset

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  studying abroad in Cambridge University with Natnael in the Spring :) It's a ... 'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... . In order to gain some valuable experience manufacturing products, we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  ... that's cheerleadery, isn't it? Jess '08 Well-- I'm in Italy studying architecture in the Veneto Area (around Venice)... mainly the work of Carlo ... are you doing this summer? Interning at JPMorgan in Investment Banking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement ... of my best friends from MIT finished his two-year fellowship in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  Structures), and 6.5440 (Algorithmic Lower Bounds), which are offered in a ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at “the Holiday Inn University”. She also has 25 fiction books checked out ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... alone someone who is basically in charge of protecting the health of our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads, our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in ... ="the sixth option is offered as an abstention"]five[/annotation] bloglets that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019