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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night ... . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... way of reminding myself that I need to start getting them too. GET TO ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  undergraduate, even though that had always been my major. I had hoped to get here ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... art style is very unique, and although it took a bit of getting used to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just ... to exam, deadline to deadline. It was nice to get a change of scenery ... get some downtime to fully reflect on the halfway mark of my undergrad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2015. If there's one in your ... check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date ... Applications its time to start meeting you all! Kim was kind enough to let me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  myself, so if i don't get invited to anything, i stay at home and sleep ... . getting asked questions on slack. having to put out bugs as they come up ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... treat indeed). I personally had a great time getting to know my group and ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  's the closest I'll ever get to it. ...   [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into ... 've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having ... entries to come involving my research and other jobs, but until then here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... IAP, but this break I really wanted to just chill out. Just wanted to

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! ... Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  , K., texted me asking what was taking me so long to get back, since it ... for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has ... them, that energy, the fact that they'll get to have four years on this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... an overnight bus to get home. The bus boards this ferry at 2 am and ... 's undergraduate research opportunities program (UROP) allows you to easily get paid

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for ... -house groceries to make themselves breakfast and lunch. So we get a lot of groceries ... functioning anymore so I go to sleep. Sunday 5:11 a.m. I get up to finish the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora ... looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... [/annotation]raved over the aurora: Professor "Sorry to bother folks, but given how many

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024