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• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  't mean you have to lose the advantages of new technology, though.  Most ... heading home. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for ... of ~6 hours (the 2013 model has significantly improved battery life

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is being constrained by the pressure of following a ... very eloquently this summer on the life changing aspects of hiking for a

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  of the Wall Street Journal (sorry Mitra), Ruth applies the first gentle ... distance of MIT, so that's where we went. On the way, we passed by the MIT ... is the color of a green tea frappucino. Then we celebrated Gemma's un

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this year, the bloggers are inviting YOU to join us as guest bloggers. This

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  '06 will be walking with us as well. If you're in the Bay Area this weekend, please join the 10K event. We leave from the eastern end of Golden ... This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row ... and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... , please don't let something like the automated printing of decision letters

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2 ... least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of ... one of the cultural houses, like Spanish House or French House! Want to ... variety of the living groups on campus, reppin' East Campus, Baker, Next

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  bare. and mit is here, too, as a sort of virtual public. on the dorm ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I walk out of the exam room and aimlessly wander around campus for a while

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... submitted a pset within five minutes of the deadline twice. Only twice, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for ... like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of course if you wait a few years they get quite large... Photo courtesy of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on ... ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be ... [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   I ... sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the ... to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of ... old. The semester is winding down, like someone's demented yo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... 's a list of the requirements: Biology: -Introductory Biology:7.012, 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005