Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... disasters before, but never of this scale. We got off the plane, and the ... was the first clue that something was off. After hopping in a van, we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had come! You all have met Alina, one of our newest bloggers. Well, I first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... , of course, just the first week. But this also means keeping my room ... abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school ... baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking ... -600). There’s nothing like the anonymity of a large lecture hall Banana Lounge Bean Bags - pretty comfy the first few times I took a nap here. But after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE  Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So ... thrilling life, soon. Until then, the moral of the story is, I actually do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a ... , who performed the third movement of the Dvorak Violin Concerto. It was ... , we accompanied the lively and jazzy voice of our guest artist, Patrice

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees ... house at the intersection of Granite Street and Rockingham Street. I like

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  would adapt and adjust to the rigor and intensity of the course load, if I ... constantly am reminded by the opportunity cost of training and competing full ... on the ice just because I don't have the luxury of training all that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  as you begin to make the leap into the first year of the rest of your ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  this mashup of ennodu nee irundhaal and permanent. the first few seconds ... none of it will ever be as good as the first song i heard from them ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... MITs, but with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  rediscovered all of them in my closet. So, here goes. I wrote this first one in ... first sentence coming true, and the last one still more or less applies ... you used that as an essay prompt. She's of the compassionate sort. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is ... announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign ... think. I'm worried some of the questions were deceptively simple. There

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer ... .) There are six-ish hours of lecture during the day, and a bunch of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... until Regular Action if that allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018