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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... basket on back. I liked it, but wanted to touch it up. I began by stripping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  not, I'm only at 4 classes right now and a friend says it's okay as long ... these ways! Andrew L. ’24: pokemon quiz. nike. just do it.  and ... "]UPOP[/annotation] [annotation note="Team Training Workshop"]TTW[/annotation] depending on how the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  . It was supposed to be a nice two hour hike, and we figured that we ... the wheel, and although he frightened us at times, it was a lot of fun ... because we thought we didn't need it.  So we found a parking lot near the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  , as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... comments or emailed me questions only regarding MIT. I'm sorry, it just makes ... be best friends and you don't end up getting accepted, it's not going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  management course (each being 1.5 hours long), and the first two were called: 1 ... .[/annotation] And that was the first day!! It’s lights out in two minutes, so I’ll see ... ="110593" image4="110631" image5="110562" /] Day Two Hi, there! It’s Day Two of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  anticipation. If you're unfamiliar with the decade-long project, let me sum it up for you: Opera + Robots = WIN. Okay so it's a lot more complicated ... Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary ... I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  discussion -- check out this half-hour long interview from NPR's Fresh Air: 'Wondrous Life' Explores Multinationality. Long-time readers may recall that ... weeks back, and it was a great book -- put it on your summer reading list!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... about Med School A's demonstrated commitment to diversity amongst its students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  our terrible jokes, but they assured us that hey, it's Montana - you have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... homeland of the Crow Nation, and is 95% Native American to this day. It is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  about why "hard tech" startups are hard, and why they're still worth it.  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  show up with a check in hand asking how much it will cost," she says ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... intensity of the admissions process and constant news reports warning how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  , experiencing it for myself gave me a deeper understanding for how much it truly ... shortly after I left).  I can see how it’s the little moments that keep ... by lush, pseudo-Scottish foliage and location tagged it “Scotland, UK

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  criteria, whether it is the very first or very last application read. There ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... missing documents, as it may slow down our ability to process the documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year ... choose one place over the other, let me know... It happens to the best

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  . She’s a good mom; she understood. But then it was just me and a group of almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out ... started looking for a house. It sucked, definitely one of the more stressful

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It ... inside of the house, but it was definitely pretty. I always get weird in museums, so a part of me did have a existential moment about how these

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and is the third of its kind. Its main focus is to see how children ... have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010