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• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse a couple of construction projects in front of my door, which happens fairly often. We try not to walk barefoot on the splinters and shards, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  the beginning of the semester, is beginning to bear down on me with all ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  is: don't think of it as a speech, or a presentation. Think of it as a ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  to the creation of LAW FOR BLACK LIVES, centered on the concept of ... danger and the urgency of being on the highway was not new to us. Three ... which to congregate, free of police cars. But it was also a dining room

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me ... set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to ...  RapidSOS, a universal mobile safety & security system to provide peace of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... there, so I'm going to move on now and take some pictures of some other ... liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... appreciated. Then Kevin suggested that we go to Killian Court—which is an eight ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide ... families and for me is always evident. I look forward to meeting many of you ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . Chris Peterson bravely volunteered to take on all of the remaining pies ... . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For ... treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  convinced me to join his team ^^ "What was the experience of working on the ... people is that you tend to feel inadequate about 104% of the time. Because ... This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  able to do physical tests on our satellite. I want another year of ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... front may or may not be the CEO of Hasbro ;) On a sidenote, we made a ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  countless films of [annotation note="as short as 2 minutes or as long as 2 ... -processing. I got to experiment with Super8 film cameras, which are both extremely ... pitch black"]extremely frustrating.[/annotation] Later, we moved on to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with ... . Does anyone else find this sort of weird, or is it just me? God bless America, or something. In other news, this is what I see when I log in to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  enough friends, to keep me happy. But Orientation is one of the few times everyone is trying to meet people. And you should take advantage of that. So ... me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  don't really remember why I made this deal, but I'm sticking to it, or ... on time without my alarm clock. So with the end to this semester, it means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005