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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to ... underclassmen are matched up with upperclassmen and you are given $5 to go out and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  possible to exactly predict how many students will attend this year. To help ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Congratulations! You have finally been accepted to college! 4 ... Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger, which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... nothing more, SLP protested greatly when my friend tried to download Genshin Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to ... beautiful, and (some) mathematicians do use calculus in their day-to-day life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other ... job is to pop as many of them as possible. you pop bloons by placing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving away to frats or sororities, where they would have the ability to ~vibe

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020