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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to MIT. You’d just be hanging out for a few more months to get a better ... ) at MIT, it may well cost you less to come straight away and get a head ... with a lot of perspective, but had to spend time getting back into the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... improve aren’t large tasks by any means. I spend a lot of time thinking to ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this ... check the MIT directory to get a preliminary idea. If your first name or ... was a high school nickname given to me by my boss, and I thought it gave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and ... , but suggested that they might dare to have a sense of humor - or

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  called The Mushroom Store.” It took quite a bit of effort to get to The ... When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... streak of a week is getting old). MIT is truly an incredible place to be ... make a design more complex by just solving all the little sub

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of ... entirely by a coordinator board made up of ~15 MIT students; this board ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your ... happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  for me. People sometimes go by their username as a nickname, and since another Laura moved onto the floor over a year ago, I've been trying to get ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a ... specific types of content. Second, I've decided to display portlet content by ... functionality a bit to make sure you're seeing new stuff all the time. The major

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a ... here and feel like they need to stick with a single UROP so they can get ... peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  career with no family to come home to seems like a surefire way to get ... moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team ... discovered that our rooms were connected by a set of inconspicuous doors and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!   ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the ... daily burden and I often wanted to hit it with a sledge hammer since it ... nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an ... performing “Icarus” by Bastille (the song some lounge critics proclaimed to be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... wondered if moving across the country to school was taking a huge risk. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  1949 to get his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rennselaer Polytechnic ... vertebrae that give structure to your neck and can be destroyed by the hit of ... to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  were taking a risk by skydiving." Sam stops sobbing long enough to ask ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008