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• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  between classes to get some breakfast. Makes cup of coffee to drink in my ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  in MIT students (if you've come to an information session or read My ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... administrative stuff to do before we can put the decision letters in the mail. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not ... current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep ... language halls) was completely random. There's going to be a concert here in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in ... will get lost. You will get locked out. You will get caught in the rain

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I ... truly this holds. So 1 and 2 - I biked to this cafe in Central Square

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... getting lost or driving in circles," he said. The average Internet user

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  producing results. Get in there and demand a challenge. And never be afraid to ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... meat that will, in the future, help the local slaughterhouse to determine

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... Malkovich, still trying to win their first Hunt), and my team, "Lost in Space ... "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of ... beginning of the year, recruiting impressionable freshmen who want to get

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... mostly at ease talking to strangers in-person. But now we have “Meet the

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... for the entire class. I really, really like this class. We get to build

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an ... noted that it was refreshing to eat a meal in which all noodles had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things ... training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... get in. (Or maybe it's really just to contain the diseases found there ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... , images, and video to record it. In total, all video elements must be less ... of time to review the materials that are sent in so please be concise

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my projects here in Germany, before heading off to visit an MIT friend of mine ... go is. In the past two years, I have been to: the Netherlands, Belgium

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  had to apply to them with all the terms of getting a second major. So ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... was so impossible for me to get a double major? Maybe it has to do with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016