Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  challenging/illegal way of doing things, though, so you get one of your minions to steal her computer. First stop: gmail calendar, obviously. You get ... beginning to droop when you reach 6:30pm - and things begin to get interesting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... , where the intersection of the two categories gives you this: Professor

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  movie marathon, but you can stop with like Star Trek 9. Here's a question ... brought by the giant Traags to the Traags' home planet, where they are kept ... Element If you haven't seen this movie, go rent it. Followed by: Dark

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  such, it's that they can take as much attention as you can give. i'm sure ... to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  theorems and have to tinker until you can assemble them into solutions to the ... material you’re learning, although sometimes it gets difficult because there are no good analogies to real life. Sometimes you get stuck rereading a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair ... APs for my senior year, so I can get into a good college." Or, "I ... one who is concerned. I can tell you from conversations with my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  because you can learn a lot from each other. We had groups of people team ... training. This post is about that. If you follow MIT Student Life on Snapchat and were keeping up with the social medias last week, you already

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  out you get quite a bit out of eating vitamins. What started out as ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... . Hopefully you all can learn from my mistakes.

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of ... to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your ... rather your lovable but easily shocked grandmother who loves you very much

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... demonstrations. I didn’t want to associate with individuals who get exercised ... might get to know them better.” Emerge aims to empower these girls

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT ... for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... ! Bad Ideas PINEAPPLES! To find out what I mean, you're just going to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  pictures of them to show everyone. For those of you that don't know, MIT is ... , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... 's almost therapeutic, getting a good stretch with a great view. And being

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... was awesome because ZBT gets all the awesome local bands together and ... food. Association of Taiwanese Students does a great job with getting the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... our office by November 1. They can arrive and be processed well after this date and you will still be fine. Please allow five days for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio ... during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in ... 't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  weather in Boston keeps you in shape because it can flip from warm and breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared ... get on with the “Who is Cydnie” business… I am commonly referred to as

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] MIT can be a very tiring place. MIT IS a very ... it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... you non-nerds, that's live-action role playing) and giving out recipes

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  spell MIT -A beaver. -The nerdiest/coolest thing you can find -The largest ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... accomplishment in a video game. -An awesome lab -A picture you feel best embodies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009