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• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and ... ’m building back to playing for long periods of time, because my foot gets ... suddenly disappeared, I had an entire community to lean on. My teammates

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Prejudice some more. 6:15 am: I get on a bus out of NYC. It’s heading to ... just explore on your own and think for a bit. Sometimes, it’s nice to ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  IEEE. And informally, creating something new and cool on your own is always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can ... , Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  This past Thursday on my birthday my floor BMF organized that week ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. This will ... prolific. Better get started. :-) If you post regularly on any admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new ... , microwave-safe cup. Helpful tip: If you can't get the powder to dissolve, try ... to be in this post!   $picy     Happy New Year! Hope

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And ... offers to work there (last year's most popular employer, if you're curious ... ; etc. In short, this is for you to get a sense of some seniors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk ... that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen ... towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  flexible. Also, get your parents to go to boring but informative events, and ... just take a ceiling tile down at Random instead of having to lie on your ... direction led me to some new place with some ongoing event far more exciting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  nerds (yuck!) To be fair, this depends on your definition of nerd ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... that you’re not completely sold on MIT yet. Perhaps a friend of a friend

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I ... would like to ask you to showcase your past business plan to the students, pretending that they were the people whom you wanted to get funding from in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my head on since last thursday. i'll miss the satisfaction of getting my code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor ... perspective on MIT - especially its pretty amazing housing system. (If you're

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... echoes of the time I spent on campus: I give the advice to freshmen that I ... to you when you've spent enough of your time (and soul, and heart, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are dorms on campus where you can paint your own walls and string up your own

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  always had time to do X and Y and then pile on Z. But, MIT has so many ... starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In ... really finished. Now one could think, "Okay, on to the next one." But

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... thought to myself, “That won't be me.”  I am known, on occasion, to sit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... had forged many new bonds (which remain close to this day) and had a ... themselves into an FPOP, allow me to settle your internal dispute: do it. You

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011