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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  preferences, instructions on how to shower, and my personal favorite: unlabelled ... , turned out to be a [annotation note="imagine sight reading it on the piano ... : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... all my time working on classes, I believed it. Two. On registration day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  LED Matrix on my dorm door, how I’d bring my cooking to my friends. It ... desire started to fade. It didn’t matter that not a single person on my ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one subject at a time. After taking tests, I normally go back to my room to ... want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  coming week, I'll get to meet more new people - maybe even youu :) Along ... me to write this entry. I've spent the last 24 hours alternating ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round ... work while juggling the crazy new power/responsibility that is FREEDOM ... processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  new and strange and wonderful and I was never told what beauty was or ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... 't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along with it, the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt! This years hunt will begin on Friday ... Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  and then call the post office for pickup. So to summarize, we're on ... Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a later entry and instead use this one to give you progress reports over the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... 't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  "IHTFP!" from my (I mean, your) dorm room window. It's to show you exactly ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  's exciting to think about who will do interesting things in 2017 and end up on ... On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of ... , from Bruno Mars to Jennifer Lawrence to Lebron James to Ronda Rousey. 600

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... 1896 MIT yearbook, Technique. To be perfectly fair, women were not on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017