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• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t-posing. a little silly looking back, but you must kill the part of you that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the ... deferred. but part of me really wanted not to worry about the regular app ... recite all the admission platitudes: not a judgment of character, rejected

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... , making this our CMS “class” of the semester! This project is a massive ... solve, and must work for a massive party of hundreds. Designing the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... buying a ticket for the lottery. The only similarity to a game of chance is ... or meet with you. The interview is just one piece of the puzzle that

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... enjoying some of the best (and most elaborate?) dinner on campus at my ... you meet the infamous cats of Tetazoo!   Erick P. '17 will be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could ... a second. We've gotta take care of something." Without putting the ... at full volume into the middle of the soundproof control room

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with ... remember one of the students asking, "so, this is going to take forever ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... 's choice of funding sources has been in the spotlight recently. But they didn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of ... mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions ... become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back, I want to rekindle the flames of my romance with MIT, and blogging for ... wobbling from the gravitational effects of the other planet that is MIT, or

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... years. So here it is, what became the biggest dilemma of my day: picking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would ... choice for yourself. This isn't the end of the road, and I hope you'll feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... in the cadre of engineers and scientists who come up with solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... of people consider "essential" for a successful MIT application -- the ... So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post ... . I have lived in the 01239 zip code for almost half of my life. MY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017