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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here ... MIT’s undergraduate population is 18% first gen? For students who are ... these topics. Check your CP* guide for the link! This year, to show off

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT ... on it. In April, we all dress up fancy for Ring Delivery and poses with our shiny new rings. The ring buying period has just concluded for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I ... would probably sell her soul for coffee. But I didn’t become a regular, a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

   breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a second. and we, the bloggers, will be ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... a playlist, and go out for a long walk. Your air may not be as crisp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items ... ” writing a party invite email for a party that isn’t happening and send it

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I had today and failing pretty miserably. So, for the sake of my sanity, I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  credit for calculus from passing our math diagnostic. i convinced myself ... ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  projects, finals, senior week, graduation, traveling, and now MISTI for the ... implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech ... Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  existing this summer. And my actual self really wanted to go home for the ... city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... strangers for a job, and three Skype interviews later, here I am! It turns out

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever ... for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that ... fell upon a dusty ground surrounding the orphanage for Syrian refugees

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  be able to make plans for their college enrollment with as little ... from the wait list without exceeding our enrollment capacity for the year ... listed students or MIT were hoping for—we think you are awesome!—we wanted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush ... theme for EC this year was cyberpunk, I heard PATD quite a bit this ... , when I blew up the air mattress, that I don’t actually have space for 2

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  information on next steps for deferred students here.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  and for all during the safety demonstration. So here it goes: Hi there ... you for choosing ‘Tute Airlines. Our flight time will be approximately ... has properly been stowed under your bed and tables are cleared for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017