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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option ... . Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of ... or to settle any argument or anything... What do you see when you look ... While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  grown up, in general. some thoughts: these days when i'm in an uber, or ... in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... homework, or going on walks or meeting people or going to parties. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in ... apparently was okay, because we ended up in a congo line, dancing to Vietnamese

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday ... ="all two letter scrabble words in five minutes and esp classes: real or fake

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  admissions authentically, but we can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  . When I'm not in classes or trying to have a life, I spend about a million ... were in relation to the fusiform face area (FFA), which responds selectively to faces over objects presented in the visual field, and Nancy

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  several stories about people planning to major in one field, only to declare ... in course 3. Before coming to MIT, I’d never particularly enjoyed ... teaching; true to form, every pset was in the form of a superhero comic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... pristine as possible, feel free to add some extra info in the "Subjects taken

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  in MIT students (if you've come to an information session or read My ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... administrative stuff to do before we can put the decision letters in the mail. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... to put a big emphasis on #8. Write often. In between learning to be ... to be pumped out. In that very same meeting, Jeremy brought up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  there are no right or wrong things to talk about in the interview. There ... glitz it up or embellish in any way. You don't have to set yourself apart ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... crunches."]not being able to do crunches[/annotation] or figuring out how ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  then tended to be on well-defined routes. To my grandparents in Utah or Arizona, depending on the season, or to regattas in the mid-West. My 1 ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  throughout the day in case one of you goes to sleep early or something like ... . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the comments or email [email protected] directly. Also make sure to visit admitted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  floors, or perhaps only those on the first few floors dared to install ... , Treehouse Cafe: Grab a coffee (or chai tea, in my case) from the rockstar barista, en route to my desk. 9:20am, Nice Window Desk (no cubicles in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018