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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  have to put on your gear, get on rope, ascend, change over to using your repelling gear, repel, change over to your ascending gear again, and get off ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... are paid in summer housing and get a budget to organize on- and off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  stuff, impostor syndrome is fairly likely to cross your mind in East ... checkpoint to get home when we have the modern tech known as RFID cards and ... is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional ... my torso; she’s not due until after the deadline to contact your EC ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... ask me about (i.e. "Do any normal students get admitted to MIT, or do I ... , you have to put the work in. It's hard, yes... You have to just get up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  think it’s pretty simple. You get assigned your dorm and room sometime ... not, but the point is that you actually know where you’re going to be living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only ... about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  walking over your face because he/she needs to get out. * Besides having no ... don't leave your door open all day, or get used to finding your socks ... they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such ... . LeaderShape takes place at an off-campus retreat site in southern Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  then get sent to one of the tables, and someone types up your form. There ... reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  anyway and trying to keep it from happening. (You’re welcome. =P) This is ... so on. The idea is to explore plenty of different ways to use your body ... differentiable? Because I want to be tangent to all your curves.” That's gotta be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... bringing someone back to your room/apartment/whatever; "That's so Middleditch ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  shouldn't come - you'll still get to meet the alumni interviewers for your ... that you're going to see MIT. When we're on the road, we can't make that ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf, they will get your letter ... write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... first). I was lucky to get the opportunity to be here. And while luck may ... time here, looking down on all the stairs that I climbed to get to where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  ="confused? sorry to say that it doesn't really get better from here"]SO NOW YOU GUYS GET TO HEAR WHAT I'VE BEEN HAVING FOR DINNER RECENTLY AND WHAT I DO OVER ... . frosh if you’re reading this it’s going to happen and it’s not just my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  5-8 for dinner. If you eat lunch at noon or 1, you're going to get hungry again before 7. You want to eat something before practice to get ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT ... bunch of sections separately, reviewing them to find out what you're not ... your actual SAT, get up early, sit down in a quiet place, and take a test

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the technical side in your classes. We then went to a hallway in the Z Center ... campus to give a lecture next week, and I'm trying to get him to be in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  purchase meal tickets and how to get to Lobby 10, and shuffling through ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016