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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... doing something with Courses 18 - Mathematics or 7 - Biology. Melis and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send ... excited. =P In more personal news, my acting class is finally starting to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him that in many ways MIT is trying to 'weed' out those applicants who try to act in a false way during their interview.  Additionally, to appear in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... myself, and I managed to catch myself up in my classes. I made a huge ... 't pretty or cute enough to be one or the other. But the fact that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual ... fun blog). In a nutshell, I've been working with my team to try and ... , to just 4 parts, one moving, all in the same plane. And the thing works

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... gentleman despite lacking milk or cream to test it on. And then, because I am

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... make living work without having to eat instant ramen every day in the ... ="If you live in a dorm with a dining hall, you are required to pay for a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... need to think about where you're going or what your options are. You also

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  strange, because we usually never see them there or together in such a large ... bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... into a sprint, run from the student center with your lunch in hand to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  [annotation note="please be nice to them"]Grant,⁠ or someone from our admissions ... to comfort movies and shows or start something new. reading is also ... available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... week, this is usually two hours or so, to make sure that I can get back to Next in time to eat dinner. Here are some examples of [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  picture getting married to him. So we revelled in the teenage dream that is ... snatch dates on Tinder or join clubs or even just go to a single Queer West ... didn’t really want to talk to. And real in-person interactions only

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding ... satisfying to feel like you're actually getting somewhere in accomplishing your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... admission to 697. Though they are all different in their own way —  sailors ... in Regular Action. If you are deferred, you are not expected to send us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... . Some Resolutions I'm resolving to leave being hosed in 2019. I know this ... Phone games. I would like to spend more time writing, whether it's journaling or

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... helping out with a cultural show and tell in preschool. That's a smol me to ... that later in life, we never really had “culture shock” or other such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity ... fire or conquer any bastions of civilization ushering in centuries of ... (if you want to discover an ancient Aztec stone or fly a plane you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010