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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... led to that very introduction. But, I’ll touch on that in a bit. I was ... have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  India,do i need to get a good scoring in SAT exams....thanks" Andani wrote ... me their applications. I really want to get a good head start in the ... without a formal AP class. You may want to annotate those exams in some way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in ... classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in ... ” (pictured on the right) to fit in. The Admissions folks spend months crafting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... + cognitive sciences with a minor in architecture. I was incredibly lucky to be asked to help start this blog back in freshman year, and I'm glad to see

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... processed in plenty of time to make decisions. When we start reading, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  take in the city and surrounding areas and to get out of the Cambridge ... in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... to turn in your permission slips!), you're going to see the High Water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  other interns at the Houston R&D Center here in Texas, and we all get ... ! It gets lonely sometimes here in this foreign city really far away from ... "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room/get ... . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything and everything just because you go here- and then you get emails like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into ... do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... 't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in ... may be used in future models. GEMs are able to detect particles using ... found most impressive was the ability to detect cosmic rays muons. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years ... addiction and so continued to lurk from time to time to get my fix. Some of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  them are meaningful.   let's get right to it! https ... met in Taiwan is in. i listened to it nonstop for three days in November ... night time are a dancer's best bet"]windows to dance in front of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020