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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  -caliber fastidiousness and acclaim," I think I'm a 6. Maybe a 6.5? I don't really know. I ... decent distance away from major T stops or MIT. This being MIT, a campus ... walking distance of the T. There's Mr. Crepe, a breakfast and brunch

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn’t ... haven’t started and spending wholesome holiday time with your family. Not ... being honest to my true character. So I did both, and didn’t censor my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  fundamental laws of nature?” What you won’t find out from these websites ... rec wouldn't make it onto his priority list; I pictured a template with ... application essays. I guess I can't confirm that he actually used any of that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... pony Yes, it failed to work, because I didn't put quotes around "pony

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  definition of ice climbing, I don't know it. But a layman's definition might be ... repeat. (If that's not how you climb a ladder....well I don't know what to ... of "rotten" ice, which is really brittle and doesn't like to be hit

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  the best in some competition. I'm not saying that here at MIT, we don't ... know it's actually okay to be average sometimes. But don't think that ... challenge. Obviously, we wouldn't have come to MIT if we weren't up for a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Shell And then there was You and Me.  It doesn't even really matter that we couldn't see the dude performing; I just really loved being among ... behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can't

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Rossum isn't your Jersey Shore-variety Guido, so if you're like me, you ... trajectory isn't headed toward linguistics, I can still do research with a ... can end up learning some useful techniques. To be honest, I don't

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... us at MIT. [1] Who'd have thought MIT doesn't own the rights to Calvin ... companies (arguably, that's redundant) don't like to give up their stuff. I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Club (no big surprise there) to Underwater Hockey (what?!) didn't help ... Robotics, Community Service, and music, and I definitely didn't want to stop ... enjoyed something – and didn’t just feel that I “should” do it – was how I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... didn’t get around to that until today. I needed to also pay some credit ... I don't use Gmail?) looking for that esoteric username they assigned

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

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... brain that hadn’t been pickled by an especially-awful problem set yet. And since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  hours late Friday night, but that didn’t stop Keith ’08 and Rob ’12 from ... relied on Ethan’s (’12) phone GPS to get back to the house, but it didn’t ... in Maine was quite stunning – they don’t call it Vacationland for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this ... scientific research. I was no research rockstar. I hadn't done any research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and ... weren’t cruel enough to give me a name with numbers and symbols, √† la ... -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... thing MIT has taught me, it’s that failing doesn’t have to be forever. In ... freaked out (I’d be fooling nobody if I told you I wasn’t the slightest bit

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  Engineering Leadership Program, I didn’t want to apply because I honestly did not think I could be both an engineer and a leader. Isn’t being just one of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  didn't eat all that much, I feel so full of everything that's happened ... of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even ... pretty sick yesterday, so I wasn't able to write or go anywhere or stay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still ... stairwell at New House 3 on Saturday. The good news is that this mishap didn't ... pet). Sure, I don't think CPW was an accurate representation of life at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don't have a job. I still don't have an apartment. The cardboard boxes I ... ME??? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY WARN ME?! WHY DIDN'T I LISTEN WHEN PEOPLE

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010