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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  :00 —  I have a shift guarding the school cannon for an hour, to make sure it ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... Calendar, which I commit to memory every week. At the table, a few of us talk

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... started to hurt to walk. However, it did not hurt to run. Then there was a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  make another decision, but hopefully it's a welcome problem to have. For ... : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the ... -flops. This night was extra-nice because prior to the "actual" event we had a ... , then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  station closest to the Neuschwanstein Castle. We had to make a four ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place ... stores a good number of Red Line trains, and so I stop to take a picture ... remark that I've noticed a lot of my values seem to come directly from my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  companies look for. So, we each looked into it and attempted to make a 3D ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted to hear as high school seniors. So, here is a part 2 post, kind of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research ... excited (maybe a bit too excited) to talk about the Institute's considerable ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to ... the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous ... are delayed a bit for reasons beyond your control, no need to worry (and ... a handful of staff on hand to do the processing. Please do not call

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... . I guess it makes more sense for people not familiar to MIT. But ... scary.) Now, there are a couple of side notes to some of these majors. A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  incredible story! It sounds like you really had to make the a great case to ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... a chance to hear what she had to say about her experiences at MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  addition to cell culture, I've also been making a variety of hydrogel ... since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... required me to do a lot of crazy things, including (but not limited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  'd experienced enough of CPW to make a valid judgment on if it was good or not. Not ... By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... production than Hollywood, for sure. A fortnight ago, the Frosh went to an MIT ... to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... away, past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... "   We've added a question to the activities section where you can indicate ... . They gave me a few tips to pass along, which turn out to mostly have to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021