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• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps ... I struggled with the most. When you're in classes all day and doing ... food. When you're not in a dining hall dorm breakfast becomes a luxury

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20.390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems). I’ve also been putting in several hours behind the

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... situations. Did you take one of those leadership training day camps in high school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... Engineering Fair from my computer and visiting my family in Chicago and in ... joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last ... movie (Hackers) and fell in love with the concept of Computer Science. A

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , “in the past”, studied “lattice gauge theory, magnetic monopoles and ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that ... hardcore physics magic. He seemed genuinely invested in my interests, though

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these plans, only to build loftier ones in their place. As we reminisced over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... stretches of time, allot some study break time, or you will go insane. In

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case ... students did a similar activity in an Engineering Leadership Lab earlier in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective ... -compressed exaggeration of MIT. We don't stay up until 4am speaking in rapid-fire Math

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... played Steer Roast in 1990. Here's the contract: One report says that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... jazzy with an alto sax. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I spent 8

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and ... Course I seniors, regardless of whether they focused in civil engineering ... people in the class who I honestly haven't seen since sophomore year. The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for students whose ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... straightforward. You'll take your transcript, then write the course name in one box

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... 's actively involved in G@MIT (GLBT at MIT), a Trans Task Force, and MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory ... , period. But I got an internship in the Cognitive Science and Applications

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010