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• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... Everyone is up late this weekend studying for finals. I'm immersing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  with fire spinning Painted for a final project with a friend Ice ... taken by first-year students']a toy for a class[/annotation] Stumbled ... that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... rewrite the piano part, for I fear there are a few sections that are ... singer for writing a reasonable vocal part, which makes sense since I'm a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... being human and for recognizing that I am the same. I had a long response ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please ... page is available now for applicants to confirm their login ability and

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... (unconventional for a hackathon--but this was a "hardware hackathon," so exceptions ... selected us for a big two-minute (and fairly sleepy) final presentation, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... . “For a long time,” he said, “MIT has recruited people who are great at ... think now, MIT has started looking for people who have a lot of initiative

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first ... 's almost redundant. =) But hey, any suggestions for a new title are more than ... . Now here's a really, really cool story. I wrote for my high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes ... taking 18.01 (Calculus 1) and, say, 8.01L (Physics 1 at a slow pace, for ... reputation for transfer students? First of all, you're not a loser. Plenty of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating ... Nigeria for at least a month, possibly more. About a month ago, I began

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  fort is almost done, it just needs a roof. IHOP, a hut for cookie ... good 20 trashbags full of them, enough for a 4-foot by 8-foot ballpit, a ... we could use for the walls, but I decided we needed a floor, too

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  expensive but totally awesome, I turned to eBay for a classic, all-mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... almost-daily Breakfast of Champions, which has a different DJ for every day

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  realized i had a bunch of unfinished work for my UROP. hanging over my head for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit ... behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  qualifying exams), became a vegetarian, and started training for triathlons ... switch disciplines for my PhD. It's definitely a risk for me to study ... this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  Partners @ MIT. Very helpful! A revision A few entries ago, I said For what ... long way for that. I guess the trick is to not go nuts with a credit card ... most people select from a small subset of classes for freshman year. And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... isn't need for a fix. I opted to only use the front piece, going for a ... "]forging,[/annotation] so I didn't think a full model would be especially useful. My goal for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  diverse and talented group of students who are a good match for MIT's unique ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is ... our students are ready for that [annotation note='A reader might

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It ... I saw the Milky Way for the first time a couple of summers ago, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  Guatemala and Honduras. Meanwhile, workers advocating for a better wage may be ... , while sometimes I wish I didn't so fear the struggle for a better world ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019