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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  A couple months ago, Petey posted the blogger application, and a few ... shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our Family of Bloogyness this year. 60 entered. 7 survived the The Blogger

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week ... didn't get to go last year but I really wanted to go this year. But the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week. Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow ... power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions office turning away potential applicants, shutting the door in their face and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  let me watch it. Realizing my obsession wasn't going away, they hid the ... my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... the privilege to interview. OK, you are probably scheduled for an

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being ... . Usually there are college Fellows present who dine at the head table. This

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same ... . i like seasons which show you the passage of time. there are some things i'll miss and some things i won't. i'll miss the lovely people and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year. So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time ... year is mostly just to not break anything. (For the clueless, these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... know that there are four different states your interview can take on the ... admissions folder. This is when we are happiest. The interviews are very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and watching old recruitment videos and HOO BOY, have times changed. (And hoo boy, have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

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

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  . That’s the same place that you’ve been tracking your application ... and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... and know that everything will be ok in the end if you’re being genuine

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  ) and down the hall. This took several hours, partially because I didn't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... concerns. I’ve mined content from all over the internet, including my ... whether the owners will take them down, or edit the content. Some of them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of classes, but it doesn't become real until after the first midterms. I have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  put photos of other people in the group whenever you see them in the ... Captains, and one for the MIT Admissions Bloggers team. So I thought it would be fun to do a blogger wrapped of the stalked photos we took! Since

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  : ?????? Premise: I don't remember what the vision was. I think I was designing an ad ... display this on one of the digital billboards at TD Garden. "More ... the MIT Coop that said Th-I-N-K (Thorium, Iodine, Nitrogen, Potassium

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on ... with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... the good people running the meeting let me come along anyway. So now I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024