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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received ... to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... most of the false positives, and in the meantime I'll keep playing with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021 ... competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... inclusions: Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson: I haven't actually listened ... pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... . Well we haven’t actually left the country yet, in many ways Detroit faces

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers and reasoning in the comments... just think about it; no Wikipedia! I also want your input on something else for 11.125. I need to sit in on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my Flip

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend the whole summer in Germany through this awesome program called MISTI

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007