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• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  happiness this weekend :) My floor's annual party, DTYD (Dance 'Til You Drop ... cute and surreal, and it warmed my heart a lot to share this experience with my living group. Shoutout to those who spearheaded the Minecraft MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  compared to what was really on my mind all day. It's hard to describe in ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in ... almost let that happen." Even after I left, I heard from my roommates who

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  listed at my first choice college in high school (but didn't end up getting ... well beyond the rest of my classmates. Unlike Mikey, I ended up getting ... my first year. I'm sharing this story with you to emphasize, as I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment ... several hours on a Saturday with a #2 pencil and a lot of anxiety. My heart ... .[/caption] I guess my message is...standardized tests aren't fun, but at least

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... Japanese artists whose works fall very much into my aesthetic of basically ... . And finally, it's me in my natural habitat - surrounded by cute Japanese

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance or the ApplyWithUs site ... your MyMIT account to follow the progress of your application (You must ... in MyMIT so we know to follow up with your interviewer. If you have not

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... swag, see "Tales of my first Career Fair" by Kevin S. '19) Regardless of ... . _____________________ Yesterday, I submitted my first philosophy paper. Which felt quite odd. Ask me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  up and corrupted my Windows installation and left myself without a ... I did learn a lot and worked as a computer technician for my school's technology department senior year. I also started my own computer repair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  entertaining to see professors taking the student role. My favorite interaction ... ] as part of your protocol? Presenter: Yea, that was a bullet on my last ... a glimpse into what you'll be able to do a few years down the line. My

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  traveling, my eyes were attracted to posts that related to questions I'd been ... made my first real visit to the Edgerton Center. The atmosphere is lively and a bit chaotic, but several things were happening at once: my meeting

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... to the event I saw fancy cameras all over the place, so I knew if my video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my ... down on the steps of Lobby 10, I set up my normal non-slow-motion camera

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  year or my feelings.... no, it's about my favorite class that I took this ... computer lab pretty much became my second home... Yep, I'm using 3 computers

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  (view on the building, view on the computer screen): My sister made this: and then it was my turn. I picked up the laser pointed, waved my hand around, and slowly traced out a very mediocre-looking pulsar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Boston when I saw it happen, and it just warms my heart to see it on the ... long, long time that we remember seeing all of my class at one place at ... ask you about it.  One of my unified professors, who also was an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I ... my HASS class, 4.301 (Introduction to Visual Arts), especially during ... start to my life at MIT. I reflected upon the amusing memories as I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed ... hilarious), I try to end my days reading journal articles, policy books, and ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and ... conveniently landed on my last day in Kansas and I was able to visit my old team

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

    Most of my entries center around things I've learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... him, no "Wayne Corp. makes my stuff, I just buy it", Tony Stark designs

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011