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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received ... ! Headers: Show All Headers Hey, B-C students! In conjunction with the ... weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are ... ? Picture mud wrestling... except with spaghetti. And the winner getting doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... presume if i got rejected from MIT, I will probably get rejected from the ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for ... the ultimate goal of developing leaders in the academy, industry, and society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  All students must complete the MIT application with their current citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  passing an Advanced Standing Examination. You can compare the courses offered at your institution to those offered at MIT with the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). The bulletin provides a comprehensive
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  reminders during your application year. The MIT Course Catalog, also known as the Bulletin, is available free online and provides a comprehensive description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few ... was pretty disappointed with my experience here. i’ll get the hate out ... ="where i spent all my time"]midtown manhattan[/annotation] is the epitome of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  i. the sleeping hummingbird Here’s something you should know about me: everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving and my licenseless self was the passenger princess"]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... yarn, and restocked the fridge. Though my physical surroundings are cleansed, I've just now started to tackle the real disaster — my computer

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017