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• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you ... your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges ... exciting, though, and Amrys (MIT Class of 2002 in Brain and Cognitive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on ... , independent of any costly and controlling gap year program -- because I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  front entrance of the theater and chased after the news cameras. It was ... bar you can put your feet up on. We grabbed our five seats and settled ... no lights on? About thirty seconds later I noticed that the top half of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much. Hope all is well and enjoy these fleeting weeks of summer :-) ... I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  lot of software specific terms. to be fair to both groups, i'll try and ... model and made a PR for sending [annotation note="the name of a project ... mixture of software engineering vocabulary and company-specific terms i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  the hem of my gown, and put on some nice but comfortable shoes (which I ... of her, on the phone coordinating the Conner 2 reunion, and waving ... on time as I always have been. Sorry about that. So. I graduated. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... named Joel Moore from Berkeley, and his talk is on "Topological Insulators

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT ... with a prefrosh that fit their profile, and everyone was super excited on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  , and textile systems. His office is home to many of these devices and it ... to any type of stairs and will not slip because the static reactions ... and also the critical dependence of engineering on experimentation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  of both strats (people working mostly on code) and sales (chatty ... -- wake up, put on makeup and a suit, eat yogurt 8:30 am -- leave home ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... around and navigate on my own and just feel...well, at home. It’s a good ... ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  amazing."]endgame[/annotation], pack my laptop, and head out of next house ... , my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at ... day, so i head on over to the green building and head up [annotation

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

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  telling on this kind of occasion. And now, it's nearly midnight, so I'm off ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... release of Early Action decisions, we aren't allowed to blog on Saturday or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  were hacking us. Allie and I saw a bunch of kids up on one of the ... @ [email protected] if you have any questions. And I am totally on facebook ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  home thousands of miles away --- architects and city planners ... factor in fatigue and biking on a heavy commuter bike. I inhale a tub of ... them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  on others that that strips me of my merit as a student and I begin to ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  ="Thank you Petey and the rest of the blogfam for keeping me included throughout ... cycle of being overwhelmed by my classes, my jobs, and my personal life ... , plus blogging"]far too many obligations[/annotation] and held on for dear

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  possible and fashioned a weapon out of sticks. Some time later I slipped on ... of the place was written plainly on everything we could see and touch ... I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  able to catch up on work and stay on top of things. Being injured sucks ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015