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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... on my floor opened their mouths…and proceeded to shout, really loudly ... this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fight anymore once you're here. UROPs practically grow on trees, and most ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... "r"; many girls do like to talk about their feelings, and many white

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  into Becky '12, another freshman on the floor. "Hey Becky, want to go ... the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... walks up, on her way back to the dorm from somewhere. She looks at us

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... basket on back. I liked it, but wanted to touch it up. I began by stripping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  the programs will allow your child to learn some things about MIT and ... efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... [Chinese: Next time we go to China we can work together on sustainability ... reforms that focus on our young people].   You see, we have to immerse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  voice in your brain may tell you to do things that you do not realize, and ... your feet is in pain it is easy to move heavy stuff in a bad way to make ... . how the front of your foot should push off the ground a little. how to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your ... yourself some time today. To realize just how far you've come. To hold your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  , and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... squishy. I'm going to be on Medlinks Exec! I was selected as the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  to know exactly what was going on and looking really interested. At ... that during our test on Thursday we're going to be tested on the material ... every day at MIT is a new challenge to overcome. Overcoming it elicits a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  on the Beijing streets. I was drawn to the "indie music" sign, but ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  this. If you don't believe me, the lowest score you can possibly get on the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... food I love. Now this post isn't to say that these are undoubtedly the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  analogies, and are certainly not limited to expressions such as “Release your ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined ... our rehearsals to give us tips and guidance on the piece, AND he

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  strong and supportive community life. Read on... Stepping up to bat in ... the athlete as "one willing to take on a challenge" and who is "not ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... fixed idea of where I was applying, what on earth I was doing, or anything

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020