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• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  and of course couldn't help myself: I stopped to read the whole bunch ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  and Seek in Killian 2. Vending machines (note the first appearance of ... hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... the end of the weekend I had created this masterpiece. In 2023 I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was ... Square (still during said FPOP) and feeling the vibration of the trains

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  the course of the first few weeks of the class, I began to fall further ... memory so suppressed that for the first half of the production I could ... the night before our first performance. It took a lot out of all of us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... you anonymously suggest at the beginning of the meeting. Facilitators

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... nowadays. I will be the first to admit that I'm very vocal. And also very blunt. I'm not afraid to call it as it is, and I'm usually the first to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... consider them in any deliberate construction of a sleep schedule. The social isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge ... it. But not too many of these dimensions, or you mess up the whole ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely ... followers. 3.) Trace the outline of your hand (preferably the hand you do not ... greeting of the coming holiday. You can tell a lot about someone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  things: You can now track the status of your financial aid application by ... Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for Financial Aid and that’s great! Applications are handled through the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... seminars to attend. It all takes time. That's part of the reason I dropped 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a ... jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... that the rest of the world is missing.  Sam says that very few founders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... of the ideas from this post: what if i don’t want to feel better? what ... it's kind of scary, really, because wow, maybe this is the version of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  rendition of Auld Lang Syne. And then the whole theater had linked arms and ... people in watching the broadcast of another rendition of Auld Lang Syne ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... immediately bought the making-of book, already dreaming about all the things I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class ... documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008