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• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  of Philadelphia by train. After an unsucessful visit to the Liberty ... collect change without getting his shorts wet, we strolled down to the ... Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... winning: "I didn't f--- this up!  Now I get to troll Politico ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours ... discouraged us, we were determined to get student rush tickets! At this point

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... ’s just pass/no record, another girl thinks to herself after getting her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  . Making things work. Thursday afternoon: Swing by lab to finish up some ... geeks out as I visit the National Gallery of London to see works by Saurat ... get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... last four whole days) has been consumed by psets, it seems only appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  entails being able to tread water for ten minutes (hey - you also get to ... high school, I always felt that PE was something tedious to get through ... council tries to reach a solution on an issue designated by the conference

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . The restaurant is quite small, and so we get our orders to-go and eat in ... . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... by the Boston Public Library's Chinatown branch just to explore the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  by a kind passerby[/caption] And then met up with more friends to take ... about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking down the Infinite and can’t wait to get back to your dorm to catch a ... rockstar intern, you’ll get to wear [annotation note="red flag that probably ... hallways leading to the rest of the polisci floor. You get up to take a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  time to time; it's an incredible blessing to be surrounded by people who ... possible. MIT brings together people who care, and to be surrounded by them ... 'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at ... the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• 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…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... , and you get to experience awesome things down the road. I think the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... making an effort to get off-campus more frequently, even if it's just to ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  never failed to be astonished by lush foliage and volcanic mountaintops ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  conflicting events and schedules, we managed to get some good movies in ... get their work done. By setting the movie at a specific time, they know ... makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I ... on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  bitch, so get more copies if you can! this message was sponsored by Wow I ... note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020