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• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold ... the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... a Thursday morning in 2007 seems to be a juicy, cooked-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... specializes in cannoli, which they'll supposedly ship fresh to anywhere in the ... that they weren't actually in Boston to see me; they actually came up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Chris Peterson. For ... from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a ... willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  within me. okay, dan, i get it! i get it. you don't have to rub it in. dan ... , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... , okay? alan: … dan: ah. dan: you're trying to pretend you're in control

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to ... Junior in Michigan who is considering applying to MIT next fall. Recently ... must win to get into MIT, like there is no set course of actions that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... to learn how to read and engage younger children in reading. You can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some ... ’s important to understand how your foot is actually coming in contact with the ... heels do not really assist in running, it’s reasonable to expect that they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... pocket wouldn't exactly get me very far. I realized that I would have to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  in too much of a rush to get here – enjoy this summer, spend time with ... (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces ... and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... Direction - my biggest regret in life is declining tickets to see them in concert because i was too afraid to be seen as one of 'those' girls when in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  commentary; I look forward to reading more Vonnegut in the future.   ... , and about Bell's relationship to it. She starts with her house in Berlin ... Barcelona. I look forward to finishing these books and others in 2023 :)

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  down in bed than it was to get my butt to the gym. Even when I got back ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  essence, what we’d like to understand the chains of cause-and-effect in the ... not enough space to go into them here']give them your intervention (in ... ’t expect there to be much of a difference in the characteristics between the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for ... there get a chance to connect!). ... With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... walking in those furry two-foot-long shoes, you have to complete the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015