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• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  get ready before class so I went without doing my hair or makeup ... sibling. This may be because he is seven inches taller or has 500 ... felt like such a boomer. Or a millennial? Are millennials the ones that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  :)   weekend trips Maine — for Veteran's Day weekend, my burton conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point ... , my own food, or cafes on Mass Ave.I finalized my summer storage plans ... good time learning or practicing on it."]a piano keyboard

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all ... way or form, I’ve been here before.” Looking back at it all, I think

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... for 27 days before devolving into over-caffeinated insomniatic hackathon ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  sample size of four days that MIT’s legendary firehose was actually ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... hour (or half hour). That's because 17 is the most random number

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  kilometers every day, barefoot, rain or shine, in temperatures above 27 degrees ... ninteenth seat, without a back or a seatbelt, filling up the aisle. The girl ... amazing people on the Colbert Report. The Bubble Bath The day after I got

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up ... days after I'd first met her. At this point I'm a little suspicious that ... FOREIGNER - PLEASE HELP." Or that I just look really helpless and weak, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  decision. Every day, I wake up. To be more specific, every day I wake up and ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you ... identity that I built for myself on the day in 4th grade when I decided that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of communities that i respect, like the group houses i lived in or the relevant

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  college riot neither of us attended, or the fact that, one day as I was ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... . See, many MIT students (or people who would be / were once MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my ... schedule for the days activities. Now considering we were booked to visit a ... 's Largest Potato" or "The Creature That DEFIES Explanation!" But our guide

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  few days had driven my mom into incoherence. I received an enigmatic ... or embrace and let it change your life a little and that's what I did ... . ignoring what I tell them to do (like not pushing the F-buttons or pouncing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  January 1. This means you can click "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last ... the January 1 deadline, here are few FAQs that might help.  

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  C2-C3 bond? 7.03 Genetics 4. This problem deals with the following ... Individuals 1 and 2 will have: … an affected son? … an affected daughter? … an ... the probability that the next child of Individuals 1 and 2 will be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  parents every year, bewildered that their child doesn't know where he or she ... attending the local state school already knows his or her building, room ... a paragraph or two in this entry: Beyond the Iron Cur...I mean, Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said ... not see it pay off in the way you expect, or hope. It's very painful ... I had expected, or hoped. The ultimate recognition is not ultimate at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or before ... mostly closed for the holidays and not accepting emails or answering phone ... deferred or those of you still finishing up your RA applications in time for

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ...   a pepsi ad along the street  the steps of the medeo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the ... that added the '00, '09, '10 bezels. He then updated it again in 2009

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015