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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  first place - by giving people more freedom to decide where they'll live ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  .   Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... out to do, getting grades and publishing papers, throwing them into the ... life. The film is oriented around this theme, demonstrated by the three

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  't function anymore and cassettes were getting hard to find), a cassette of '60s ... ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself ... a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  'm planning to make by putting videos in a playlist; that way, they're easy to ... also decided to leave out the anchovies because I was too lazy to get ... Stir Fry   By far the easiest thing to make; just chop everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  . Maybe it was their first day. Ruth laughed heartily. I managed to get a ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... better just not even bother clicking the link below; trying to download all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... around the courtyard and running around on the castle walls. I tried to get ... I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  starvation, thanks to his unwillingness to get out of bed and buy groceries ... space in our room that was screaming to be filled by a sofa. Attempts were ... hosted by Theta Xi, an alley, an effort to find something “big and useless

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  getting excited to take photos with characters. I didn't allow myself to get ... , who gets excited to see Lightning McQueen, whose favorite movie is Cars ... twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes ... invited as well as the students who went over to MIT last year. Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on ... , a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  blog written by our Alumni Association) More Than 30 MIT Alumni Named to ... healthcare, followed by manufacturing and energy. It's cool to see winners in ... , from Bruno Mars to Jennifer Lawrence to Lebron James to Ronda Rousey. 600

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  about my UROPs this summer and all the time I get to spend with my friends ... I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by ... in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working this NASA ... schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006