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• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  next year the applicants could try to get all stressed out a few months ... to spend an hour on a single app. Sometimes that's just what it takes ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my ... he resolved as a child. He will return soon to tackle the challenges of ... ’s like to love science and math, be curious about the world, and remain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... annoying song, and also the teachers had already done a video to it so we ... to update for a whileeee)[/caption] "I need to look so hot for Carly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  you can also use CopyTech to get papers bound such as for making a ... . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was—and is—a lovely museum, with so much to see. I had just started my journey

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  remember starting to giggle - and then my eyes were closed and I was in a ... packs strapped to my face. Lovely. Since then, I've been on a ... SPRING BREAK. This is a nice introduction to what I have going on this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... 've only ever been to Next and Simmons, and they're okay. I mean, there's a ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer ... staffed by BC residents who make sure anyone who doesn't actually live here ... other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a ... . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring ... treatises written by the early proponents and opponents of the Constitution to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To ... A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  switched it to P/D/F, but it's okay - by the time I graduate, I'll have taken ... have a point, I swear. I will make it.) No one, least of all me, wants ... expecting you to have the answers to difficult questions, to quit making faces

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... Cormick!) to delicious brunch (thanks Next House!) to a spiffy hack at the Media

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  spin class, and I was butthurt, but also determined to take a formal ... tries, and had to swim more—not a great strategy. But the adrenaline only ... to take a walk while other DEW-ers were playing underwater hockey with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  school students to make their craziest ideas a reality. Your idea doesn ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... human interaction, my little brother was having a blast, making friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different ... , talking to people, making door signs or tea(my only two personality traits ... Orientation event, Dear Future Me, in which all the freshmen write a letter to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... have had a great experience at any of the three I applied to. Your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  or something, he has to tame a wild stallion, which he does just by ... the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005