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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade ... Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  "]really lucky[/annotation] to get into the only company I applied to seriously in ... *inferior* to getting a job in some way. This probably stems from the fact ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... powder flour Ok. Plan acquired! Part 2 - Get in loser, we’re going ... we still managed to get the wrong type of greens. Oops? After the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... the perils of group dynamics in poorly managed projects.  People tend to ... used two Force Sensitive Resistors (FSRs) to detect foot taps in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  , the upcoming experience I hope to get in the spring semester will be ... Chem was on fire"]5.111[/annotation]in ESG because I wanted to get a ... hard asf to get, so I'll see what happens. Japanese So at one point in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... lab to the game, and changed into my cheerleading uniform in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to ... or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan ... : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even ... outlets in each room, but they don't always tend to be in the most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... some links to things I mentioned in the video! All about the James Webb ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8 ... Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get involved in the hacking community. All he wants to be is hardcore (there is ... to 4-6 shows for each production period. Anyone who has been in an MTG

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  when I woke up at 9 am to get ready I saw the following e-mail in my ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... manipulate game objects. Unlike the machines in Introduction to Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  : After a little while, people started to get restless. Being locked in an ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent ... properties has led to conductive polymers being used in OLED (organic LED ... was just because I didn’t want this blog post to get uncontrollably long

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... seen myself as the "frolicking in nature" type (due to my allergies, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020