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• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , then your phone is gonna crash. Oops. So I've been using the break to ... different academically; you're still figuring everything out; you have to ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... to turn in your permission slips!), you're going to see the High Water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , and you get your cold butter out of the fridge and try to gently spread ... [/caption] Ultimately, an unnecessary item to have, but getting this filled me with a ... would really add depth to this meal? Zest. Lemon, lime, orange, take your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear ... just when they started to get interesting, and there needed to be more ... communicating a feeling to the observer. When your words on the page—nothing more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , and you get to experience awesome things down the road. I think the ... method to run properly when you’re not satisfying its preconditions. If ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  into consideration (and you're not going to get a part if you really can ... during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... your weaknesses, and I'm not saying that NOT having AIME scores will get ... to cover all the weaknesses that come with your environment, because it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  some regularity, actually. You'll need to either get your dad to fill out ... . If you do use your new teachers, I would give them a bit of time to get ... you get to know the individual contexts of thousands of intl. apps? May

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... 't personally get into Boston much during the week, and on a weekday night you're ... , pretending to do homework. Marriage Anonymous asked, what are your thoughts on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you ... able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  ? A few things: 1. I get to learn about so many things everyday ... of your life - these are all meant to be temporally-finite experiences ... these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  time getting the hang of simple things that were easy to make and tasted ... allow me to actually get groceries regularly. So, I told myself that I ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... goal for a student should not be trying to get into a specific college ... students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  your algorithms statistical background to understand most not too niche ... and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019