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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  such goodies as how to get your MIT email address and lots of information ... added benefit, now I get to experience these same traditions from the ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  battles every single day! Trying to chase your dreams while fighting visible ... ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue ... therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  's the kind of day that indulges every one of your senses. Now, to the ... pretention about MIT: no one seemed to care how you dressed, what color your ... me a while to get that admiring others and feeling proud of myself are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  your chance to help them get to know you! Your statement of purpose ... , be dynamic, come alive on paper. Continue to get advice from your ... student — let's call her Jennifer — said she wanted to get a master's degree

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get ... To Life Than Tooling): "There's more to 8.01 Than getting p-sets done ... tour guide) for this statistic So, if you get the chance to be around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  so proud to be at MIT. According to the project website, the ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard ... to get on a reality show? However, Sam's Mom convinced us that this ... togetherness more than one million dollars, so we decided not to get there until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  and familiar, but college is a chance to pave your own way and make your ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... having to suffer through others saying "you only got into MIT because you're ... your peers than you will from your classes - and for that to happen, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... ? I sometimes get so anxious over whether they actually want to hang out ... your life together…I’m trying to clarify my values and truly figure out

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  5-8 for dinner. If you eat lunch at noon or 1, you're going to get hungry again before 7. You want to eat something before practice to get ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... power drill. Apparently one way to get out a stripped screw is to dremel a ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... they covered material that I had little to no exposure to beforehand. 11

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... . Arthur gets to travel a lot for work, including a recent trip to Nigeria ... could get woken up by my babies. They were glad to see me. :-) * Today

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  "MIT Shuffle," so I usually try to leave at about 8:50 to get to your ... 's a pretty sweet deal. You get to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and yoga, sing to each other, and get occasional master classes from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients ... sequentially executed (write your commands). Sometimes you get directions like

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... at MIT is how to carve your own MIT experience without thinking about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022