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• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Experience the weight of knowledge. Get frustrated at having to ascend or ... ="Translation: to send an email to all the dorm mailing lists, often to advertise an ... ="meaning 36 units or ~3 classes, the minimum to maintain full-time student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... ’re like me, and you’ve always hated summer and the fact that we have to

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... to a mixup with the insurance company; it should be up by next week, in ... transport students and other patients to get the care they need. It's a pretty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... by the consequence of a natural disaster, but rather that the place of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  skills, they accepted you because they knew you had the capability to get ... of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  didn't get to talk with you that maybe you got to chat with one of the ... two annual retreats to discuss the year gone by. Should be a very ... of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  transition. Don't get discouraged by the many challenges you'll face this fall ... community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires growth to navigate and survive. Two years later, I can see the importance

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... correspond to certain groups. The green area is the blogger fam (the very large

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  -negotiated one of them to start in the spring. By late June, I had finalized my ... get for myself and too often I'd find myself going to sleep as the sun ... a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to my baby. Usually, by 5 pm, there's a loaf on the table and that ... , but I'm also ready to get back into the rhythm of the week, and I ... bother to lie to myself that I'll get ahead on work; I just bask in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... . There you will see the name of your EC and the best means to contact them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... this. If you don't believe me, the lowest score you can possibly get on the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once ... previous lack of doing things by doing all the things. Thing #1: software ... fangirling the entire time. And I’ll be working with a nonprofit devoted to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  to by walking through an empty Starbucks. The restaurant nearby plays ... I went to the pond, my boyfriend and I stopped by a place called Moozy ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick ... 't just about picturesque scenes of snow and charming moments by the fire ... horses, illuminated by the soft glow of the moon, bringing newborn calves

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone ... electrical signals from surrounding neurons to the cell body of the neuron ... birds to create lesions (i.e. tissue damage) to the brain and observes the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  get enough sleep (and food) on the two flights it took to get to Manaus ... MIT). To get there, we took a boat ride up the Rio Negro – one of the ... to pass the time by singing the songs in our upcoming concert. Before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023