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• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... friends asked me if i wanted to get an apartment with them. i agreed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New England about the same time so I was able to show them almost immediately

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt ... :30. This means I didn't get my test back. And this suits me alright. Last

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  Question, or just PostCard.. I was getting my mail today and almost fell to my ... from campus as you can possibly get. She rode it over last night and locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants ... plants! I hate you! EDIT: I sent my personal statement to the professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... on that later), so I need to get some experiments finished up before

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sticking my head out there to get a better camera angle. As you can tell ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was ... still passed. However, shortly after getting my test I exclaimed, "Shoot

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

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  me to enter saying "I know you'll at least get 3rd place" and I ... native speaker to get any questions I had out of the way. I definitely owe ... the ability to communicate with about 1/5 of the population, and get

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  had to audition to get in) who can actually sight read pretty well, he ... [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  before). I also get the chance to sing at my church (Pentecostal ... favorite times because I not only get to hear live music, but I get a chance ... ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  person to get their picture in before Valentine's Day officially ends. A ... , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005