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• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  try out things you didn't get to do before. Learn a new skill. Play with ... won't get to see for a while, and now that you (presumably) don't have ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• 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…

  

  to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was

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

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer ... other kids at my high school. No one else seemed to really get it, that

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week ... commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to ... a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the ... showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  out and find a new place to live. With the help of his well ... other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  safety net vanishes. By then, you'll have to adapt. So I guess for now ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  by New House for a final swim test? Most people took the swim test ... Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching ... for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also ... afternoon, nothing happened to me for like two weeks. Oh, except I saw this ... . Actually, you ought to watch out for the champion Asiatic chicken. How

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed ... to go to the New Jersey Student Gathering that year :(.   2017 ... branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  meetings, and new advertisements to peruse. Most people just stream by ... first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  water get to my bathroom faucet in New House? I have no idea where it ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to ... " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of ... must win to get into MIT, like there is no set course of actions that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  meaning to get an entry up about painting my room, but until then, I'd like ... sense for the technique I'm using to make an 8-bit mural. It involves a ... sure to share with y'all when I'm done. 5) My Tube The new Kaplan

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the ... weekend events. It takes maybe half an hour for all the prefrosh to arrive. Was Talbot that hard to find? It's been too long since I was new to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... lunch hour and get me ingredients for cookies and pie! So I guess instead ... talk to one another via chemical signals. One neuron gets excited, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006