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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... am. We were hungry and in the mood to try the new "Quesarito" from Taco ... ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... ’re busy getting our lives in order: paperwork so that Germany doesn’t kick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... to move forward in production. In fact, the full show of World of Wires will be performed in January in New York. So, if anyone happens to be

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  . Being in the middle of nowhere also means there is relatively little to do ... . So I'll get to work on physics all day, and go camping on the weekends ... battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an ... when you get to MIT. And everything that follows from here is Kim '09 ... you in. WooHoo!! You're inside and want to know what time it is. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... greatest mercy in making us look unequivocally lame to the dozens of 12-year ... dollar in my desk drawer and decide to start another problem set. It's 4 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... freshman physics students. In addition to weekly labs and weekly PSETS we

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  -aggressively tell me to get better at dispensing water, but to our surprise, the QR ... this unhinged ranting to say that this blog post and the water in my ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... the physical examples, easy to describe in a short vignette. The true

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... actual Google house) to anyone willing to wait two hours in the line (not ... junior in college, which means I'm starting (hahahahaha) to worry about

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  world of GIRs my freshman fall, I saw them as obstacles. I had to get ... ` (MIT`s motto-- had to stick that in somewhere) to ask the right questions and to be creative and innovative in seeking our answers. Without the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... meaning in context you want it to have; use the thesaurus again if you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... five Science Writing programs in the country, so it’d be cool to stick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  never actually get to something 2-dimensional, given that the slices of ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana ... , vocab word of the day). Now for the part of the blog in which I get more

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  , and I finished. Now I get to go home for ten days. I get to prepare for the feeling of yet another fresh start. I get to feel whatever this ... Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... drums to destroy the undead is so strongly swimming in the zeitgeist that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to ... recommendation form. It is also okay -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023