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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  different Sam asked if it was easier to get into MIT grad school if you go to ... probably everyone else). It is significantly easier to get into MIT grad ... student's career in certain fields to get bachelors and masters degrees from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  has been driving me to get up and about. Some things I've been up to ... for $25. As I didn't get around to doing the paperwork until mid ... The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  , 2003: Bryan boards flight 382 from Houston to Boston. So I get to my ... . college firsts: first shower: it'll take a lot of getting used to. first ... good idea to live in a quad because I'd get to meet three other people

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  excuse to get all dressed up: The ladies, always classy. The guys ... inside and tried to stay calm: Chilling, or as close as we could get to ... enough to try to find your teammates, to gather your exhausted crew and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  promise that attacking people is not going to help. Funnel your energy into ... everybody who gets accepted, and happy Pi day! If your letter says ... 's time to say it again. While admissions will have you believe that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom ... satisfied with your sentences. Then move on to Step 6. I actually did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on ... ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  I didn't really know anyone in Tokyo, to which she said "Me, your ... , told me to get some rest, and to call her some time soon. That weekend, I ... of toast and tea and ramen, and then she took me to Ikebukuro to get a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... thought. "Maybe that's just a curveball, just a tough one to get you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  up to any class you’re interested in on the first day with an add ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner ... reasons I will not get into"]many were erased over the past summer ... we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  . Anyway, detour ending now.] After this I'm hopefully going to get some of ... to get rid of my insecurities. I also have the [annotation note="I'm a ... wrong way to spend your break. A break is a break for a reason. And if you're

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to ... where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  to see your responses to this entry. They will give us all great ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006