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• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  bunching for the stairs, and made a mad dash for the gates, only to find ... sighting in the Susquehanna River and people in Harrisburg went down to check ... that it would be best not to chance it, even with a concurrent entry by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my ... .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... to feel alone in the battles you take here. Nothing attests to this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  intruders (which, in a way, we were), children were following us, talking to ... whose direct flight to Newark turned into a twenty-four hour layover in Shanghai). I built in a six-hour layover in Doha – plenty of time to see the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time ... since then as quickly as possible. To see what’s missing, log in to your ... right-hand side to find more tracking information. (Note that documents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  feels like I'm in a whirlwind, jumping from meeting to meeting with no ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a ... person. and honestly, finding these means of self-care so early in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... CPW allowed me to capture a glimpse of MIT culture in a super ... bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  the MIT Faculty in their collections. I sent in a request to retrieve ... ="aligncenter" width="833"] the font is apex new, which is the closest to a font used in ... engulfing the meat. The MIT logo disintegrated in flames to a wild yell of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  successfully flown custom motors ranging in size up to a P9100. [caption id ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras ... , Composites has been doing a lot of research in carbon fiber and I have to say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line ... an entire post to itself. In a nutshell: our team was made up of kids ... competing in the WPI regional. It's very strange to watch a group of people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  auditions. I was a musician in high school, so I’m accustomed to performance ... , and one a post-doc in the biology department), I am eager to spend IAP ... (Eve Ensler, the author of the monologues, allows casts to write in a few

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  a lot in my smile when I smile at them. My roommate drags me to the ... Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... ...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get ... homes i've never lived in. five Trying to sleep is a terror When thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  in Stata A brief tangent--I have always loved to explore. MIT is great ... discovered that if you’re ever in a place you think you’re not supposed to be ... Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019