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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  "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 ... little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects

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

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  gets below 60 degrees here, we cry. So not only do I have to wrap my head ... get to help me think of a name for my real blog. (I named my old one ... to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  unintentionally danced around in black ice before getting back to our dorm. (In ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is[annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free ... ’s assignments were the first ones where we had to include sound, which gives

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... button pushing could get my pictures scanned and my goal of finally

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  people to this guy. Then someone yelled, "Get him!" So I tackled him. Into ... the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 ... who aren't slackers, you can visit this page to get a good idea of what ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  . I think it took me two weeks to get through 30 pages, but once the ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  sleeping bags down and getting ready to go back outside and start a campfire ... fantastic time together on top of a mountain and on the journey we took to get ... Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  , explaining that he "wasn't expecting to have to get up and teach." This earned ... some of Boston." Not sure how quickly we're going to get power back ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one ... can barely decide what flavor of ice cream to get, let alone pick ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011