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• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  things going on but it would be cool to hear people's thoughts about the ... would not recommend basing your choice of major on potential starting ... you intellectually. Also, you may want to talk to your parents about a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  upon Commencement, the water stations where students are egged on to keep ... Student Art Gallery. Keep your eyes peeled for announcements on the show ... ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by ... to call people on their bullshit, although I still suck calling myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... language) to create your job is heaven. Business meetings, marketing strategy ... , Justin '08, is actually being featured on inc.com (along with his co

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... students do not need to send us anything new other than the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  and my two high school best friends around on New Year's and b) came to ... :30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I ... blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... application pieces not showing up on your tracking. There's a lot of mail to ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to really get into it. We had our own Baker House jerseys and ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... way to reveal it, and had decided to make her speech on an impulse. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  taken from the website. Again. So anyway, back to this semester, I saw ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I ... couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  have your elbows on the table? Brother 2: (Moves elbows off table, quickly) You're supposed to cut your spaghetti while you're eating it! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it ... lot more water than I was willing to actually have sitting on my desk

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  and saw: Divine intervention? On my way back to the Student Center ... to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  will let me be your queen Let me succeed, and bring on 5.13. Ode to 9 ... House kitchen, to work on my 18.03 (Differential Equations) problem set. 4 ... . Get up, turn it off, pull out laptop, and work on reports for the Public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology ... mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... life taken an Intro to Biology class. He also means that he was on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013