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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  stagnates, to push the game onwards. did i say weeks? yes, weeks. 2E assassins ... tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn ... trust your friends and form alliances? or should you be a lone wolf? i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  About two weeks ago, not too long after my 21st birthday, I climbed Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  experience. I like… genuinely love swimming so I’ve had so much fun being a ... and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to ... with each other. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem, I always have someone I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... laborious and difficult yet so so worth it. I signed up for 6.115 because I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

    I have an idea. Live blogging. I've never tried live blogging before and I think I have a great opportunity. My fraternity, Phi ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  addition to books like 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, which I ... ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay—I ... didn’t help me at all when I was actually writing my essays. If you are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses ... understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... -core temperature (you can tell I'm enjoying my biology class). If one of these

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  On a recent blog entry, I got a question from a student I thought was interesting:   hey matt i've got a question. right now i've got a nose ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore throughout the entire weekend I was there, yet two people pointed it out the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... ” (as if I’d ever need that when working with molten liquids). Here are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , because I still think in Python-influenced data structures, years after 6 ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago ... , Okay, I guess certain aspects aren’t that much different than how I was ... ..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things. To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all. But things have changed. I mean DRASTICALLY and COMPLETELY changed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go). Looking back now, it was a great fit for me and I had an amazing experience

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle-making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud ... and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  !!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in ... (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... and distant future presents. Her energy is unfamiliar (if I got only four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014