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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  place prizes. Notice that 90% of the awards went to Conner side, which ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other ... last fall when, as a result of the competition being on Saturday instead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and ... thought. Eventually I made the decision to focus on academics because I knew

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  , or really am required, to wear a shirt with my face on it—blogging is truly the best activity on campus. In fact, it is varsity blogging, which ... MITted after this weekend.   BONUS: Is CPW Representative of MIT? On a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  , of saying this is mine and this is how I want it to look. I couldn ... that I didn’t have the freedom or even desire to alter it beyond my ... . According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a bedroom is primarily defined as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  've done this on occassion when we are confused whether to go with Russian or ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  Simmons Hall is supersaturated with tiny windows, or the thrill of hearing ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... unwelcome rush of last-minute standardized testing. Which is why I'm in Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  high. Charm, like me, is from Arizona, and one or the other of us kept ... talking about being tired, but willing to carry on. Seven or eight miles ... mark of how focused I was on crossing the border that I did not stop to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  wanted to be an engineer and just accidentally ended up on this path which led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I ... to Charm School. How to Dress Yourself 101. Or something. This is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from ... science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... the most informed decision we can. As a matter of philosophy we try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  morning thanks to the dozens of huge speakers scattered on both sides of the ... the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and ... , unfortunately, did not take my camera, so you'll have to rely solely on my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  devoting every single brain cell to the task of understanding Thermofluids or ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  on November 2, 2006. This is the easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and there is not a lot of hassle with ... analysis And the list goes on and on. But of course, doing a UROP is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  to December 31st of this year. The other exhibit that List is ... system of water which self regulates; it changes from droplets to ... has to do with the ways in which forces of nature are systems. The

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  is a great chance to dive into some neat projects. I've been on the ... annoyingly difficult last question on the pset. When a hallmate or neighbor is performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  MIT, and people’s only exposure to any sort of South American food is ... Syndrome is the inability to correctly gauge the amount of things you can ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008