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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time ... night, my penultimate one, because I’d like to hold onto the blogs for a ... , and for the first time in 3 years, I don’t need a bottle of hot sauce to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may not yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  being top .5% for The Beths, but as my friend put it, “I got a late start ... be in the top .001% for a big artist like Taylor Swift, and apparently ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... accomplishment. a. Cambridge Community Center (CCC): I'm a member of the Boston

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of ... where I spend most of my time, take a deep breath, look up at the stars

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  House were cordoned off for over a month. Everyone was using the ... in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  ’s a skill you will have to use for the rest of your life. And I know ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... locate the Admissions Office. I finally arrived at my interview a little

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  giveaway that the undergrad association did, where we wrote a blurb for one ... portion of the results during the contest. to get full points for a problem ... to an reu, a research experience for undergraduates, which is the math

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these past semesters have been quite a transformative experience for me; (maybe ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity ... desk a few days ago only to discover that the mechanism for opening the ... ; The door knob of the future?     Thanks for taking a virtual walk with

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Diego for the Central Meeting that evening: 8:20AM - Cajon High, a high ... checked in at my hotel near the airport, went for a run along the Liberty ... , a charter school for low-income students who will be the first in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  crippling laziness and go for a run in the woods behind my hotel, but until ... 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  . One of those people was/is Christina Couch, a recent alumna of the ... initiative. Because I was involved a bit at the beginning, and because I think ... almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  old school machines out there. Fortunately for the scientific community ... discarding it. She paid attention because the noise took a strange form: little ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  slept outside a 7/11. Whoops.) We stopped periodically for the toilet and ... dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise ... was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could ... chaos. As the zombies approached, David and I chugged out a window

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... for the first two and a half years of undergrad. Then a series of random ... the time. Regardless, I discovered I'd developed a bit of a blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... , called home for more than twenty five years. As a diverse community of ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  the Phillipines for May, a relatively young but so far very productive ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... discussion off the blogs though, or at least my blog, for now, and focus on the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008