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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  17 of MIT. He says the team actively teaches its members how to do ... always talked about how he’d build a fully functional Iron Man suit to ... chords, and has no idea how to transition between them (hint: anyone

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries ... the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super ... few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... know how cool the sailing team is (we ran the account during spring break ... greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly. What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... over the grill. From weekly family dinners, to Pancake Sunday with my brothers, to just hanging out making lunch with my mom, meals have always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  song before I knew how to multiply. So my view of the United States was ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  about how lucky I was to have the chance to attend, and one week freaking ... : questions were raised, and potential solutions described, concerning how to reach people who are deaf to the bad news about climate change, how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... eventually going to have to think about. All I really knew was that I liked to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  squeeze) to see how many data points the Lab Quest can record. This quickly ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  second just reminded me how it's never too late to be in charge of what you ... things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  sources of graphic content. Also, how am I supposed to center captions with ... What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  into wedges. There’s a body of mathematical work about how to fairly cut ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... destined to wage intra-campus aqueous warfare. I’d ditched all the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... than they had been before they went off to college. My grandfather has ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... MIT feels like home, I'm definitely looking forward to going back. Before I take off on Saturday, though, I have to deal with what I think has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... stairs to celebrate with Burton 3rd when Burton 3rd burst through the door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007