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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was ... it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  last as long as MIT does. Maybe it will last longer. This is a very ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... does it mean?!When I first got my grub (on Wednesday-ish of that week), I ... be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  specifically at technology and how it affects culture. From surveillance to ... understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex ... registration. You could all take it with me if you wanted to (and you should! It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  whole time just f r e a k i n g  o u t about how cool it was and then ... other other homework So... it's been a long time. There was a week or so ... clean everything up.) It took so long to get anything done, and afterwards

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  content of the conversation. Instead they measure how long each person ... factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it ... it's carried out and how current research projects use the concepts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT ... It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake ... potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  PDF, this is exactly how the admissions committee will see it. Recommendations: It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not include the MIT ... processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  of the year they'll know more about it than anyone else; I like how it ... annual fall showing -- before it is loaned out to students -- is open to ... to the campus gallery to view art, and waking up and living with it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... conversations about how to select the final school that she will actually attend ... it is. This is our conversation from last night

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  just sits there, shuts up, and does it. She finds it's the path of least ... that and sometimes, yeah, it does keep me up at night. Sometimes I think ... my best trait and instead replied with my worst, saying that it was my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  while the rice cooker does its thing. And if you’re still busy by the time ... is proportional, but it should be. I can definitely see how it’s ... timer that indicates how much time it will take to cook. When that timer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... ), Portnoy's Complaint (same for Philip Roth), Call it Sleep, Don't Stop the ... kid level for a long while, though.)Anything else? I was once quoted by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  *then* it dawned on me. How STUPID I'd been. These thousands of people ... you can see just how many people where there. It's incredible.) Enjoy ... people have been singing? Me: does it mean anything? Spanish friend: not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  succeed, but it’ll be darn awesome if it does. Every day is completely ... haphazard and does not emulate its keepers. Hard work doesn’t always pay off ... with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it's only fair that I talk about how this school is decaying my mental health with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  though the bullet is already long gone. Technically, the hardest part is ... your hips. It's no surprise, then, that Mike Conti (the MIT PE pistol ... with it) -- 1. ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine. Each class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  how convenient a subway system could be. Also, I hate driving, so public transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  lineart second, since that's the opposite of how I usually draw. Doing it ... giving credit where it's due, you should check out the official site and ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my ... while Shaye was reading it. We're still not sure why she thought that was ... Nicholson, and Charlie Sheen. It was pretty interesting but I would not highly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006