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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  campus, listening to the song Alewife by Clairo. We went back a few more ... Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  January SATs on a case by case basis. I would like to know how and to whom I ... our possession to make a decision when the time comes. The reason we say ... adventurous enough to want to give Senior Haus a try!" Absolutely

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  weeks were great, I was making a little money, I got to listen to as much ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  makes a pretty serviceable bookshelf and doubles as a nice little reading ... accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the ... communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to acknowledge its downside

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a cute little gallery which you can visit by clicking here. 6. A hall has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... took us all to Jillian's for some fun and food. It's a pretty rare

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... being able to write well is important. You will never encounter a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  -and-off, actually), and this semester I'm trying to make a coordinated effort to ... camps, as the internees learned to make a living for themselves and make ... be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  -level classes, you literally have a trial period to assess yourself so you know ... receive credit for a class by taking the final for that subject. Scores for ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  're still trying to make up your mind...by all means, comment away. That ... get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy ... ="61419" /] This guide is not a permanent fix; it will need to be repeated as ... whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  all these details to make my vision a reality. That is what motivates me ... where I try to communicate my vision and they make it into a reality. For ... you care so much and work so hard to make a piece the best that it can

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  admitted students can enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to ... package, come for CPW, or anything else that you need to make your decision ... to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  after work to actually make this trek, so as a result, i've only been to ... one whenever i wanted. having to get around without a car is making me ... ="attachment_45131" align="aligncenter" width="750"] my daily route to work as shown by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  categories capable of making a meaningful distinction. We want to test whether ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ...  made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want ... of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... you decide to use your IAP to just exist, you feel like a stupid, weak

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  that make me happy. (Props to you if you get all the references. A couple ... into you, and make sure you maintain a certain level of sanity. To be ... process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick up her meds. Is skipping 18.022 generally a bad idea? Probably. But to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016