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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... them now. Unfortunately, since I travel around every day with a personal ... Mafia, Moo, and President. I just want to say right now, Moo is like the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still painfully SLOW. I was reading Matt's latest entry where he talks about the 30

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, [annotation note ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . No experience required, was the advertisement. Come and help out. The night I ... said no experience required, but I still couldn’t bring myself to ask ... engineers, and not the unexperienced prefrosh I was. It felt like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT, I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body’s shut down. Why, you ask? Why, you really ask? Why not? I’ve just had all ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... of knowledge of the game. I've been watching a full game almost every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I got my job. The summer before my sophomore year, I emailed about ten ... letter. I got responses from two faculty members, interviewed with one, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  to the GAMIT's review (and now I can proudly say, personal experience) the South Street Diner has some "angsty" waitstaff (Ruth's word, I ... the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I ... recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024