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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... that spills outward invites warmth with it. Kamoya and I head in, closing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into ... sororities are directly in Boston, in Kenmore Square) - and so I bring you ... today, so let's see if I can do a little bit better here: organic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair ... quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... pain. Then I fell asleep 40 minutes into recitation. So, you can staple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... course numbers: “18.02, 5.112, 7.012, and 8.012.” So I know I'm not in ... this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... research opportunities are a close second.) Put it this way: I can learn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  called "hyperfine splitting", for the reason (as best as I can tell) that ... yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in ... currently means that I faciliate our participation in the intramural badminton

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I'M STUPID AND MIT MADE A MISTAKE WITH ME IF I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A BASIC

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... trapped within an image. You can see it in action on the Project Naptha ... Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... athletics, gym classes, and other non-academic activities. I was reading in ... . 4. Size. I grew up in a town of about 2,000 people and the idea of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... open eyes, I realized that MIT had more than enough resources in the ... in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in ... place where I'm comfortable. And now that I'm here, I can really feel how

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  !   *You can find the rest of my and Kevin's pictures here. (I highly ... Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few ... .  for context, i deactivated my accounts sometime in the fall semester ... " align="aligncenter" width="369"] so you can tell that i ate a bite before

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... have a normal, stable relationship, and down here in the third... oh, I ... As it's been nearly a month since I posted (yeah. I've been hosed. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006