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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if times are hard, I'll pass, purge classes but I shan’t have lied. It’s true

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic ... into the highest paying job you can find because it's there. Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on shape and the prominent beaver on its bezel, but the specific details of ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... and correlating it with EKG and all sorts of other stuff. For lab 9

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so surprised - I had not expected it at all! Enjoy your victory, but remember that admission just means that you got your foot in the door. It's not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... implications for the field. I've even heard it compared to the Human Genome

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library ... see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been ... like my marriage to MIT was formalized. Sounds lame...but it's true. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... can choose to delay this it would only delay the inevitable ... that! and it's genuine, really (I like the praise), which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for ... it a listen and let us know what you think! https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  semester rainy, cold days made it more bearable to hole up in the library or in lab when it was sunny I got really excited to go

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way ... exhilarates because it means forward action, and not just in classes, but in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it's not finals (Common, who enjoys those?). It's the 2.009 presentations ... what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  NO.1 MOST FAVORITEST THING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It's an ... will love it. At this point, I am really scared of technology. It’s ... . And that’s also one thing you can’t change about technology: it won

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  am utterly in love with this building. Everything from its 90-foot-high atrium to its bamboo forest to its bold colors to its people. This is ... that if you know what major you want to pursue, you can declare it and be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010