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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  thought. When a nurse came in to see me and asked what I was in for, I ... , and as an aside, my professor in 6.02 (Intro to EECS II, electric ... ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  school in Texas because I wanted out. I really wanted to be in an area ... of token responses, and if they give you an ambiguous response, ask for ... 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... . We started off with an exhibit with art by Takashi Murakami, a modern ... was back in Japan wandering through museums again, which added a nice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  out in an essay?" or something to that effect. As MIT admissions ... this year. Although our application does not go live for another few ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  joys of MIT. In actuality, I have much, much more to say - but for now ... Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full ... paper for my humanities classes (remember Arrowsmith? yeah, it's on that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... MIT is an all-you-can-eat dessert buffet. In my freshman and sophomore

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no ... , DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an ... when it's time for me to go, Or an injury I will give you. ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  left campus in… an interesting state, but more importantly, it left ... When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my ... -Cambridge area, it’s practically a gold mine for snow-related activities, including

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  can submit an Interview Conducted Form in MyMIT so we know to follow up ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... deadline. Please allow 10-14 days for the processing of all submitted

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... about an event that occured on Friday. This past Friday, the First of ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... is by no means an exhaustive list): Me, March 16, 2011: Bleary ... and interesting reading for those of you waiting for Pi Day. As

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  never be thankful enough for a good teacher, and in some ways you won ... cast of Hey Arnold! for Halloween. Am I reaching an age dispairity with ... needed a host to fill in for a last-minute emergency, and I happened to be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... , often standing for hours in the sun handing out parking slips or life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020