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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  at any time, which is nice because a huge percentage of MIT students ... 's time to move on to the next segment of this story . . . As many of you ... to be more active on campus than any of the other Asian cultural

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  I'm going to paint on top of the "elephant" and "armadillo" - which is ... of the summer unsure of if I wanted to bother painting or not. But I ... that I want to take, classes that I find interesting. August is exciting

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... some of my grades on my Self Reported Coursework form might be a point or ... activities which couldn't get on Part II of my MIT application because we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... natural follow-up question to that is often, "so does visiting campus or ... campus on Friday doesn't mean he'd have a better chance of being admitted

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... on your list, or you wouldn't have applied to them. And in truth, you ... challenge in the weeks ahead is to ultimately select a school from the list of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... on. One of my debate coaches used her phone to draw over the Dean of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  's living groups or campus geography that the folks on one end of campus just don't often see those on the other. :P The aim of this "outing" is to ... all because mail was promised to go out "on or before Monday." Still

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... diseases. The gallery on the first floor of this brand new center is

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  from most of my classes. It is an especially nice place to work and feels ... spaces--the Course 8 lounge, which a friend recently showed me, is full of ...   Walker Memorial is home to a plethora of student organizations, including

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  side of the globe!' or 'i talked to my next door neighbor on radio', and ... before. And just when the room is about to explode from the amount of ... listening to old guys talk about their health problems on HF is always fun

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  “cosmic order.” On the top of page 105 I wrote “what is the ultimate goal of ... goal of graduate school is to “focus” and I’m not sure how to best stay ... and my task is to transition out of here. The hardest part is deciding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  architecture or urbanism class. And it is my cup of tea. So I spend every Monday ... on smooth water or a breath in the air. There is ink on the walls ... and bare branches stretch to the sky like thousands of anxious or eager

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  happy. or whatever.   on being taken care of i think another marker of adulthood and self-responsibility is actually learning to accept ... , and you have to teach yourself how to depend on other people or manage

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  is very little pressure here to look one way or another. That being ... forced, which is not how you want to appear. So the short answer is ... Course 15 (Business Management) yet. Is there anything close to a major or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  promotional material, a lot of which we had seen as posters on/above the streets ... experience, though, is that many of them don't speak Haitian Creole, which is ... going to DINEPA, or Direction Nationale de l’Eau Potable et de l

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the ... improvising 5-minute classes on these topics, I would love to know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013