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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my ... got back from a year on leave from MIT. I live right near work, and a ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  mysterious petrifications, Harry and the squad discover a bloody message on the ... the details on the Back to the Future hack and the MIT Zoo hack by ... have since learned much about self-care (more on that later). October

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Right? On one hand, there’s nothing ... have to start drinking it in mushy cauliflower smoothies. On the other ... . Everything would be different now that I’d be living on my own, being bombarded

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  the construction at East Campus, when I start seeing more people on the ... when I got 100% on an 18.02 exam. I remember taking medical leave. I ... remember an early morning arriving on floorpi. I remember unpacking in my

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  ; The freshman application is now live on MyMIT. Our online application ... -250 words each, depending on the question):  We know you lead a busy ... , and meet, the dates and deadlines, get everything in complete and on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... room on that same floor. I saw 2 fellow pre-frosh for the 3rd time at a ... the essential task of refreshing the smoot markings on the Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  for them to ask staff and student workers for clarification on matters ... conspiracy of nerds who write about MIT on the Internet and learn the secret ... like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and fill out the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so ... standardized test on your own--this worked well for many people. If you want to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  referred to by your username. "In some circles on campus, you may become ... 're still feeling stuck on what to choose, you should know that it's easy to ... on whose behalf you can send mail and of which you are the only member

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  and bartenders at the fancy Craigie on Main restaurant/bar teach MIT ... COMPANY ON THE MATERIALS TEAM!! IT IS SO EXCITING! I AM REALLY EXCITED ... AM SO EXCITED! More on this later :) Cats I have the best cat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  morning and night, especially when there are dorms on MIT campus that are ... breathtaking: On the front steps of our frat house. Ok, not breathtaking yet, but it'll get there. I promise. On the bridge at approximately 170

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I ... and beyond. That Friday I woke up extra early (9am lol), put on my ... on business cards, and I even snagged a spot for an interview with AT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  with Ed, one of the instructors, a transfer student was getting advice on ... /etc. It also turned out that the transfer student had worked in the lab on a ... contests happen on campus? The students I'd spoken to were familiar with 100

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  ; (Fun fact: if you air this grievance on Facebook, you will get a couple ... putting "CMS & 6" on my handwritten nametag. This gave a lot of people ... undergraduates on behalf of their places of employment. And, of course, I snagged a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  by Melis A. '08 I Remember... by Anthony R. '09 Reflecting on 10 ... featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of colleges would start their own blogs based on the MITAdmissions model. They

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Our office is not on Twitter (although our bot is), but 89 other ... . So we rethought our social media efforts and decided to focus more on ... . We also plan on following your experience a lot like we did during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  in about a week or two and word on the street was that they were going ... while now. The decision that the FCC makes will have a large impact on my ... difficult to remember names or what's going on. So lately I've been waking up

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify ... click on "How to accept or decline our offer of admission", and complete ... 't responded to yet, do that too! P.P.S. For those on the waitlist, we haven

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . And that was to film it. On video. And put it on the internet. Whether ... editing software whatsoever and filmed this on a handheld cell phone, so I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  on the internet and it was a wonderful experience to see what was out ... speech on the intricacy of Windows* and read this book to learn more. Me ... finish my last week in Austin relaxed. I'll be back on the 12th from Kansas!

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013