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• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... Nerdy on YouTube, or maybe you'll be just sitting around the table with ... and putting fire engines on the top of buildings, and although all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... meet the houses, eat free food, go do really fun activities, and if you ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  Some things I did since the last time I wrote: Attended 13 ... flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... many bruises, and I'm not even kidding. One of the coolest things we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few weeks. Who can blame them? They're wearing bathing suits under the towel ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it was at 14 during that time or at 20 sitting outside the stud as when I ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I disagree. There are three major decisions in the college admissions process

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... through it but this weekend that was not the case. The trip back was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the MIT experience over two days. You can find the application for this year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... Both Asia and Daymé heard about WISE through programs they did the summer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays ... essays gave me the creative writing space that I never really got outside ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the internet everyday, so it hasn’t been that long at all. At most three hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson was the most-played artist on American ... celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon ... leadership curriculum through weekly lectures and weekly hands-on labs over the ... continuing the program as a GEL2 during my senior year, where I help mentor and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of August 20th, I carted my things up to my room on the third floor

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  I realistically choose one?  Well, the truth is, I’m still pretty ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  Last week, I wrote all about the classes I took this past year. It ... myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... ; though the earth science comes in through my research, and not through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... climb over a fence, but even so, it was all done the day we learned we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020