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• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  of data, visual or practical. Yes, always; sometimes to my benefit ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this ... , considering how most of the bloggers listen to more music than ~95% of their ... hundreds of playlists, and I'm very diligent about listening to music

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  lies This is the dawning of the rest of our lives On holiday [annotation ... "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  to get off the train and insist on going around the loop three or four ... is to come. Yesterday, I visited some friends on campus, coming back ... comfort zone is the best way to grow, and that I shouldn't cling on to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  to the speed of light. 32. Discovery is learning that you will burn ... having trouble falling asleep due to the impending 8.02 final (which I ... . On my long flight back from Boston back to Taipei, I spent some time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  movement to "take back our field." Marilee is firmly on board, as is the rest ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... don’t run into any issues on Saturday. If you need to reset your ... tracking your application checklist, which is now turned off. "]Application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  school he is about to leave, trying to feel some kind of good-bye: “I mean ... sense of good-bye just isn’t there. Or maybe it is and I’m just having ... left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs ... want to experience MIT through the creative expressions of bloggers. That ... anticipated) Why you're coming to MIT Short Answer (250 words or less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... front of me, because somehow that made it easier to believe that i wasn ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the ... E put up a great video outlining the history of 2.007 (or, as it was once

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s-British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with ... nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to ... event of the FAST Festival. On the evening of May 7th, the Charles River

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our impressions of each applicant. While this external validation is an absolutely

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  easier? Not to mention your most special friend, or "friend^0" is "the one ... adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Oklahoma City, the events of September 11th or Virginia Tech, the closure ... really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  along, or even get to sit inside of the lecture hall. There was also an ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  together enough to actually write a book. [annotation note="this is, of ... any meaning and also if today is a Tuesday or a Sunday signing a book ... shape and we could probably go out on submission (send it to publishers

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016