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• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  make people unsure of their own merits. But today, I realized that my own ... Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I did other stuff too: counseled 5th ... and choir were held during the day, so I got band and choir grades

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... ) is a four day event which is only for admitted students and their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... weather has been quite mild -- it was nice walking around today. After a ... on this day I answered the question. I said that we would be more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to ... last day of SCUFFY, so we also had low attendance due to Zoom fatigue

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  semester, my days start early, either 9 or 9:30am. It isn't ideal, but I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  this point, it was nearly 10 pm. My friends and I had arrived at 7:30 ... yelled. "LEARN TO MOONWALK! YOU'LL NEED IT SOME DAY!" He didn't make it to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  capabilities of the day just to drive the point home. The next 30 minutes went

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  intense brainstorming period, which generated more than 30 ideas. “We just ... important design elements along the way. A few days before their project was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours-Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  regret" article in O magazine earlier that day when I was supposed to be ... 10:30 bus, got a job as an investment banker, met a nice Japanese dude

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  earliest possible T, which meant getting up at 5:30 AM. And it was raining ... well-fed days of my collegiate life. Lunch was at an organic French

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... little surprised when she came in the next day and said, "Here's your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  water generally reflects color (blue on sunny days, grey on cloudy ones ... 't take you more than 30 - 45 minutes to drive there." It's important to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  station. 3) Timing. This is specific to varsity athletes: Two hours a day ... your energy level up, but eating a full dinner at 4:30 is a really dumb

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 3. Check out Day 1 - "Sketches from the Independent Activities Period," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  using modern-day frameworks and computational tools. I feel like the class ... , and although I wasn’t as excited about the day-to-day work of web ... were at 9:30AM…)

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... my days at MIT working through a haze of sleep deprivation and pain ... Rhode Island [link] (30 miles, but 33 since I went the wrong way. Walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  procrastinated on the qualifying problems until the last day and then spent fifteen ... hangover the next day, which is like a regular hangover, except it arises not ... NJ, and I’m still seeing lots of people over the next several days

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the point I could squat both the bar, plus 30 pounds. That’s a whole 75 ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in ... painstakingly climbed stairs one by one for the next two days. I was essentially

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  desks. I’m at a desk with relatively reasonable hours (8:45 – 7:30 ... tools for others to use. On a day-to-day basis, we mostly code quietly.4 ... —that is theoretically easy to learn. But at the end of the day, I’m less

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016