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• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  feel guilty for not responding to his question. As I mentioned just a ... the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... ) has two GRTs who have open door policies for students to come to them if ... floor to take a break from their work to hangout and socialize for a bit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to ... MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... , and sustainability, you will leave MIT Sloan ready to take your career
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech ... from the San Jose Mercury News - "'Printed Chips' Could be Boon for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... month prior to the test if you really want to prepare well for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised your friends you'd tag along with them for some Halloween shenanigans

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies, and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  to ask for guidance when I needed. As it turns out, extra force was ... excited to come back to it! The earrings were for a St Patrick’s Day party ... things when I wanted to, which is vital for jewelry-making. My favorites

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... how obvious inattention is to the person at the front of the room. (To ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... that made them strong candidates for admission. Well, you don't have to ... student groups are open to anybody who wants to join. The only person with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  classes this term. The descriptions are yoinked from the online course ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo ... Objects move/change too slow for humans to dynamically notice. That is not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  resolution links (for the most part) as those are pretty unpleasant to look at ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... mom to the biology labs for too long. I think this was Trumbull

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... ) open comments was a kind of godsend for those who might want to get a ... (or maybe ever). But I have come to the conclusion that, for a variety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the ... . '17, Sabrina M. '19, and Anna B.), which was officially closed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community.) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010