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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  known as MIT Central Meetings. For me, this means: Washington DC ... advisor for the first time. You gotta feel sorry for the three poor saps who ... at the prospect of helping my advisees navigate the first 25% of their

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  classes, and a GIR). You'd assume that at MIT I could register for classes ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... happens at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions ... known as ECs) will greet attendees at the door. If you've RSVPed (please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this ... , this. Ruth '07, field reporter for http://sam.mitblogs.com, discovered ... for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  D in math at MIT, success for me meant graduation. That definition was ... put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... about this — call [annotation note="a service repair hotline for on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no specific reason, traitor tears leaking through my ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride ... ever so crowded 5 freeway. My grandparents really did everything for me. They cooked for me. They did my laundry. They helped me with school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  swipes at starting one of my psets for the next week, but really we just ... you are lucky ducks."]we all[/annotation]prepare to hunker down for ... before and preparation for things that will happen the day after. After

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But ... at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... -rotor helicopter that can be used for search-and-rescue missions, and maybe someday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... ’t know what I wanted to write at first when Petey reached out for posts ... . “For a long time,” he said, “MIT has recruited people who are great at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  worried for him, but he should be fine. i get to class fine, at exactly 10 ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... mine, smiled, then looked at me with a serious face and said simply

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  helpful at discovering MIT to me: Fairs. These are great for (1) seeing ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  dude smiles helpfully at me. "We can wait for you!" he suggest cheerily ... what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for ... about. If you shoot for an overall GPA of between 4.2 and 4.5 at MIT, you ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... , for those REALLY REALLY counting at home, I'm more than twice as old as ... there for similar reasons and generated this beauty. Looking back at it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  ? Do computers play a big part in life in general at MIT, or just for ... ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... basically I used up all my writing braincells that I usually save for the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... want to talk to us in the comments below, we’re here for you. We ask that ... may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024