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• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... . There are a million ways to get involved in a million different activities ... House when it was -20 degrees outside. But, now I get to complain about it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to ... these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... focus more on making sure your essays authentically convey who you are (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  ) I was REALLY excited to get this new room. The coffin never really ... ", because you have just enough room to extend your arms all the way. Coffin ... single.) First step to moving in: the room required a paint job. Getting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  mindset was "I have to get As on everything, I need to be involved in ... honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every ... thing that defines your high school career. Get out and try new things

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... top ranked on the second day, and then finally narrowing it to your top ... to post this update since I kind of left off on a somewhat unsure note

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  something like that), you're getting this instead. Yeah, I know - horrors ... , Dorota, Thom '10, and I went out to eat at Trident on Newbury Street: The ... one point referred to an ongoing Harvard study found at this website. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The ... reply to those people is, do your parents, or the other adults you know ... , one of our new freshmen was moving into her room, which happened to be a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  hat to be a pre-show hit! So hold on Tim Gun, it looks like you are ... fashion class. Stick a solar panel to your shirt next time you dream of being on Project Runway, and get ahead of the game! And the game is just

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  ’t have to be a story form, just tell us what’s been going on. You don’t get ... we ask each other to increase our odds at getting on Jeopardy, or the ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  cappella and guitar. I listen to different music depending on how I feel a ... .e. a day on which I want to listen to classical music and feel all kinds ... specific significance to people I met, adventures I went on, and feelings I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well ... buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  they used to say on "Cribz," that MTV show where you show off your room ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... Services and see if I can get an extension on the homework, but..." I'm off ... As I've discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... logs. reading them over, they're such a throwback and deserve to be on ... on the couches watching the Oscars and agent June introduced me to Joon

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  ; Spotify also gave some interesting stats on how much you stan your favorite ... , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my final (?) time blogging about Spotify related content. @ the younger

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again, Donald Trump and the other candidates on the show stressed Randal's amazing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... pictures to show you just yet[/caption] During the spring, I was able to get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... otherwise, even the little voice in your head that's telling you to just strap

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008