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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of ... the voices of 45 other MIT'ers from all walks of life. These quotes are brought to you by Sahar H. '17, founder of the Sleep is for the Strong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers ... . This is true even though MIT does not use the Common App; submission of ... small part of the application, and the word limit will in no way influence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class ... interesting. It focuses on the politics of framing—in other words, how people ... negative light in the West, and the current unit is about various elements of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of ... are not particularly picky about the definition of a blog. Broadly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  cold bottle of media is advised. Other notes: “This is probably the best ... actually has really small amounts of heavy water! The cells I babysit also ... taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... one of the Global Teaching Labs anyway. Sure, teaching is a lot of work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  beautiful posts about the current feelings of black people throughout the ... couldn’t. I began thinking about the type of things that you don't think ... some people try not to think about the inevitability of death. I put my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... had picked up from the author of the paper we read.   He was an ... experienced someone who thoroughly understood and contributed to the magic of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... ’ve faced”: Failing the last competitive math test of my career (to be fair

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts ... Stranger to the Rain is one of my favorite songs to sing ever, but on top of ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  in by the end of January and they will be seen by your readers ... accessibility of the admissions officers, etc.). We try to connect with you on an ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  drew schematics of it. This is easily the most male-heavy Course 9 class ... lots of people, both among the students and among the staff. I don ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... this side of the coin paints an incomplete picture. At the same time that ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... should be, what would I think was the most striking thing? Would it be the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know ... Fenway in the massive crowds of people: And managed to snag some Red Sox ... it: The seats weren't bad. We sat in the back of the outfield. A

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007