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• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... . A girl basically paid a consultant to help her reinvent her entire ... , not just MIT) have a responsibilty to find a way to take the pressure

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  history." I planned out a way to make this happened and reached out to T ... like you want to be part of a team that is really making a difference ... project wanted to join, I would hesitate to make a huge point that people

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  make a sauce to dip the shrimp in. Remove the shrimp as soon as the ... and you have to add more milk to make the last few crepes. Spread a ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... by itself, but it becomes a lot cooler when set next to the "I forgot ... 'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a culture. and it's a culture i, a canadian jew who went to majority white and ... . someone added me to a black students' chat at the start of freshman year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like ... 9th grade and well, I figured if one class was going to be a disaster ... going to be thrown into a class with virtually zero prior knowledge and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into Kendall and Central squares to obtain food and given me a new appreciation ... waking up at 4 a.m. to stumble into the boathouse for morning rowing

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes ... itself ever could. I round the corner of the hallway and make it to my TA ... different shape, a different weight. Some are feather-light and a breeze to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... for me, this means that I have a ton of data analysis to do. Basically ... people mention enough to prospective scientists -- a decent percentage of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  mile to make sure they were okay. My mom made a comment that "我们家的人一直很坚强 ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  -winded sentences, making sure to use one of the 32 new grammar strategies we had ... sandwich and a Honeycrisp apple that my roommate gave to me after apple ... the mind, to dissect a problem down to its fundamental components, then

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... especially at MIT, there's an urge to see a social problem and want to build an ... the humanities, arts, and social sciences. I'm really glad I go to a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent ... truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy ... with a free sticker that said "HUG ME, I DONATED BLOOD TODAY" stuck to my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it ... F/A-18s overhead to the percussive expression of a man in a pug mask

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... never blog about varsity sports, why?" or "You try to hire bloggers from a ... all make hand turkeys, draw turkeys, or photoshop turkeys to shoot at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little bit. It’s a pattern at this point: I’ll walk to Boston and feel a little surer of who I am as a person, a little more oriented. It’s hard to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... own worlds. 3 More than all of this, solo adventures are a way to ... . You learn to exercise the muscle of making decisions, because now each

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024