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• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  . On top of the game itself, at some point your teammates cross a line ... ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  and making flowers, so I squeezed a  on top of the cake instead. Then I ... dropped on a field from a helicopter. How cool is that? That’s the kind of ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  on who should be the next President of the United States, and there are ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  southwest force on the stern, and the coefficient of friction of the seaweed ... . After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... % honest: MIT wasn’t even on my huge list of schools I was considering before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... of going on Reddit. A short time warp later. 11:00am Fishing For ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  on how important it is to rest. It's a nice change of environment and ... Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  . The droning on of teachers talking [annotation note="yes this is ... friend on the way to classes, and the perfect amount of time to let the ... my god I am somehow on the latter half of my MIT undergraduate

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out ... of indecisive. you're really good at focusing your energy on your work ... stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... Student Center where they were showing a livestream of a One-on-One with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of ... the rest of your life collapses in on you and you find yourself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  other day and saw a bunch of facilities guys doing something on it. I ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  doubled- I HAVE AT LEAST 8 BOSSES! In honor of my 3rd week on the west ... 've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... Saturday last week, I decided I would put 6.006 on Listener. One of the main ... of the great conversations I had this week while working on the problem

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022