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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here's what I found ... ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... types of fondue -- this one had cheddar in it, and there was another that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  this could be appropriate, but generally I would strongly discourage this ... admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  other people say, 'I've felt that way, too.' " In some ways impostor ... Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... . In the morning, I was woken by a harrowing newscaster voice on the ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... doubt in the mental sink where I'd been pouring my Googlified impressions ... Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  complete radio kit.) Remember when I said that I would be taking Terrascope ... Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an ... term), I worked in a joint Brain & Cognitive Science

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  week, the ACT announced disruptions as well. In my last post, I affirmed ... reaffirmed in the recent Care Counts in Crisis statement that I've signed — we ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  in my closet until I got annoyed at the exposed screws; I’m not sure if ... right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... with what I think is the coolest paint job in the dorm. It belonged to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ...   Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... , why, it must be because I have a math class at 12 PM and would not like to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I ... year, that I actually formed connections that I'm putting in effort to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  invested heavily in research,” he said, “and I hate that our people are still ... the value in this. “I am a firm believer in the quote, ‘as the twig is ... there. “I’ll be Skyping in,” he assured me. Going forward, there’s still a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... this was some kind of chemical fire in room 408. But I hadn't heard about ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  , or FR) NEVER TAKE THIS SEAT. I promise you the person in front of you ... ;     Tune in later this week for a blog explaining why I ... Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  experience what it's like to live in a place where it snows. "I know it's one ... -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of ... work for everyone, up and running by CPW) But I digress. As I am sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  also wrote:  In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives.  Whatever the outcome, I very ... civic engagement. When I arrived at MIT, in 2009, with a background in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  , too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved ... after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is ... the puzzle. Reading this passage closely would clue you into the story

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005