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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing ... Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... ? What did he recommend I do as a freshman? What were some events and ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  feel like i'm not doing enough. i think that's a contradiction that has ... it off. a quote from a post back in march: What am I doing? It doesn ... . it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the ... 't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti program again. do i regret it, saying no? if i went, i would've missed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor. We are ... your applications, the support staff who made it possible for them to do ... climbing a mountain, and this year's application process felt a little bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  Stop doing your homework, don’t worry about papers, don’t pay your ... ’re thinking “But Chris, why on Earth wouldn’t shirk my responsibilities? What do ... case you aren't convinced of the collider's sinister intent, take a look

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a school unless he or she has verified it with a primary source. Serving as

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  will do this for you anyway. :-) My advising seminar, 1.A24, has proved ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and what I should be doing here before it's too late. Certainly, the first

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . Here are a few myths/traps. How do you know that you can't afford MIT ... consumer loans because they have lower interest rates and do not require a ... the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  what will be required of you as a frosh. Do a Freshman Pre ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... includes doing the Freshman Urban Planning FPOP as a frosh, and working as a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  do a pull-up I have a somewhat irrational fear of the hypothetical ... ."]cook-for-yourself dorm[/annotation] with no meal plan, I sure don’t do a whole lot of ... /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking classes virtually and doing pretty much nothing else. it's weird. here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  to do a thesis...also, I'm not ready to be a real person right now. I ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  probably the simplest thing I ever had to do on a computer but hey! It worked ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... there and make it a triple.) So when someone elsewhere in the building

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  have been a Course 7. Other things I'm doing this semester: UROP: One ... do a good job and gain a lot of experience in planning and managing ... At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  investigators at each school that I might like to do my thesis under. I did a lot ... lived disproportionately in my dorm, but I didn't have a problem doing ... stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023