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• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  not having a meal plan but having a schedule that doesn't allow for time to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... .[/annotation]I'm not really a ~meal prep king~ like certain other bloggers, but I go

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... post is from a never-published draft about from my freshman fall 2014 ... . __________________________________  Part 1: Freshman Fall I’ve only been here for a semester, but things have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... , after I watched like one episode of [annotation note="I also had a brief ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... I am an international student (although I do have a good profile ... Carr wrote: "When reviewing applicants, obviously there is a certain

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... my past two summers were spent in a variety of locales (take advantage ... in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality show contestant! Oh dear, this has been a lifelong dream of mine. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all ... think it'll end up being a little more important than making yet another ... , but hey, hey look at this: Booya. As most of you know, I'm a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... slowing him down a whole lot. Skate skis are a lot easier to learn since ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  , manner of articulation, and their voicing. A consonant is voiced if the vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I ... often that it becomes work. But it also presents a creative challenge ... many other dishes. I am a "weekday vegetarian", and there's always both a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago. Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... -themed floormal party. With a giant beach poster covering one wall, tropical imagery

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... looking to hire almost exclusively freshmen to maintain a balance between

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority ... school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... national stereotype, so we decided to give recruitment a try. Since the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is ... be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  excitement replete Looking back now, 'though it hasn't been long It's a marvel ... nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the artery, but the vein), Mike Short '05 mounted a laptop on his door two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005