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• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of McCormick’s central location on campus, or many other reasons. MIT ... lovely spring afternoon, waiting to go on one of our social events: a ... entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... winning science fairs, some spent them cow-tipping. Some like to sit on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work on them, of course, but the three people whom I would like to ask for ... computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura ... , which is probably my favorite [annotation note="Humanities, Arts, and ... requirement, where students have to take a certain amount of HASS classes before

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... of TIMtalks, “TIMtalks was created as a forum to practice and learn to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  as well? friend: what is this studying thing of which you speak? me ... of 24 and Heroes I want to see Jack Bauer take on Sylar. I don ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... marginally better than party balloons.) 1 night of fireworks, thunderstorms ... nutritional content of Doritos... and I went to one session of jiu jitsu only

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  one of the things that was going on today relates to something MIT ... mystery, composed of 25 percent mystical "dark matter," which is only ... question?" The rest of his talk focused on the quest to understand these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  coming from a rural or small-town, most of our STARS programming is open to ... of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS ... short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  'm reminded of the myriad ways in which transitioning to a prestigious ... start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... , speaking from the audience during the Q/A session of the astronaut panel on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... to so many new perspectives and ways of life that I just never even considered or thought to consider before. And being at MIT has also led me to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  quantum sensors out of lasers and stuff, and it is exactly what I need to ... double-slit experiment (which prove that light is fundamentally quantum ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  (still maintaining our distance) to get a better sense of her size and ... that marked her nest. Here is a video of the event! We tried our best to ... years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  of episode 1 is all you need to be hooked on. Trailer: https ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025