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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... ’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that ... caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  . The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to ... socioeconomic means, live in a rural area, or might be the first in their family to attend college. If you have any questions about the weekend, please
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will ... past month and i once emailed the ceo of nike asking him to make the air

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... date of birth clearly indicated -- and that the letter address the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... in Brigham Young's historic house (where, for the first time, I tied ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  first part of my summer working for the Massachusetts State Science and ... ! WOOH!! *The first two images, courtesy of google image search* ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be totally honest, the major reason I was freaking out about the loss of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... have an attention span like that? Chris has blogged about some of them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... practice writing essays. My internship in the latter half of the summer also

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language ... the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... world, but this was my first time in the Middle East. During the course of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the ... Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my humble opinion, the world is comprised of two types of students. Student

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some pressing questions as the talk goes on... First, some CPW answers. I know ... .CPW Farewell: Saturday, 5pm (and probably Battle of the Bands, too). The head of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006