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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ambiance and the kinds of people I saw wandering around (you can recognize ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in ... Dirac Medallist smiles awkwardly in front of an innocuous upside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I ... As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... as you can often see in movies but i'm a steady person. I'm not a guy ... course will end in a couple of weeks time?" Yes, that is fine. You can fax

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... break us into the lobby in the middle of the night so we can film it ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your ... their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some angst in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  in Baker, my first year, I got to know a collection of 8 people ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... 't know, and the possibility of more unknown unknowns, and I can understand ... in the level of words. Bob has more experience. He can listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  either. I filled in the conducted interview form a couple of days ago after ... math evaluation which I made sure to be sent in the early weeks of ... send in TOEFL instead of or in addition to SAT I without any adverse

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours ... follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... that I would feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of STEM in comparison

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  same time, I was in school studying math and computer science. I am more interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... coral or fractal growth pattern of the veins in a leaf. After taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  (minus Bexley…), and participated in more events than I can keep track of. It was truly the most fun I had had in a long time (especially ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... selection of electives within their major. I can't think of any other notably

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... did a pretty good production of As You Like It, but I must confess that ... of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Really! I actually studied Hamlet fairly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  of lack of education have we come!” I read Gorgias in 11th grade, in a ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... this was a major interest of mine?? i guess i liked coding more back in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  percentage of free time in my day, I do attempt to read my yearly book quota ... my valiant attempt to read all of [annotation note="and honestly, I can ... running in LA made my lungs burn with mostly pain with a side of shame, so I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006