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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... 's Steakhouse. This had been recommended to me by my uncle, who'd told me earlier ... why it's so hard to get women to consider careers in engineering and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . It’s a life skill you’ll have to get used to if you come to MIT ... flexible. Also, get your parents to go to boring but informative events, and ... dorms and get tours (this will be much better than trying to figure out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  on your ceiling just to keep things from getting too crazy and then ... anyway, I'm off to the bookstore- I'm getting my Harry Potter book at ... long cruise to the Caribbean. It doesn't get much better than that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  build your "want to take" list, I recommend searching Firehose by keyword ... each category by how much you want to take them. My ranked list for this ... ="alignnone" width="1504"] the categories are ranked by how much i need them to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  .0002. Swayed by the promise of pandemic PE/NE grading, I reluctantly decided to ... into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam, didn't go so well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT homepage

  

  By the way, if you haven't been to the MIT homepage today, you should check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  've ever been, and I'm sure they'll only get harder. :( But I got to spend ... this fall. I was lucky enough to get an offer from a company called ... 'm also going to date this post by saying this, but Nintendo is going to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... than part of your life.For me, by the time I got up to go to class, I ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  of my most exciting moments to life.) I started my CPW experience by ... the time everything was ready, I managed to get past the crowds to take ... ) I didn't get to any events across the river 2) I didn't spend much

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Leave It to Beaver. The town is largely shielded from the recession by ... of rape and sex abuse. By listening to what they say about how the ... routinely disbelieved. By committing ourselves to communicating allegations of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot ... thought I was going to get expelled or rescinded or some shit, and that my ... blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  by getting an A. I work hard, demonstrate my enthusiasm for a subject ... put into it. And now I'm probably not going to get that. And last night ... EVER TRY EVER WHEN I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GET EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF MY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... , so I usually only do this if I get a to-go box (e.g., during late

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things ... to build something out of party wreckage to avoid being eaten by sharks ... Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  swimming on my stomach, I'm getting there. I won't have to worry about ... get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... Engineering and Computer Science Over IAP, I'm trying to get out of debt. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way ... first to comfort, the first one to run over when something gets fucked ... actually make effort to understand it and get excited about it. I think this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  turns entertaining my little brother, and somehow, I managed to get him to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , acquiring supplies, making some things, and getting to know each other (by ... , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these ... : Ok, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Rewind to August 19th 10:00am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022