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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... entry as long as I necessary because it may be the only chance I get to ... room Figuring out how to get my computer to print to our dorm’s printer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... to become 100% about getting into college, which is wrong, wrong, wrong

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  ’t get off at MIT. I love living in a city, and I love being able to ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  never really fully get to know. Because while small talk and conversations ... go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... have to think about this decision, i'm starting from scratch. i think it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... getting the chance to learn more about how other female engineers dealt with ... " focused more on how to get involved in the Linux community and less on how

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I, and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH ... these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to ... deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed ... otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  ones I didn't get to reach. After Nicole and I finished our eightieth ... After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... . Hopefully it'll get warm enough to walk along the beaches at least! Before

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a million other blog entries that I've been meaning to write - including ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni ... Again, happy 2006 to everyone! Electricity and cable have been ... probably isn't reading this) is safe and getting by okay. We dropped my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier ... . Since getting my new phone two weeks ago, I've been able to get reception

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... waking up to ensure your day   gets off on the right foot? What happened ... to have a cup of tea or coffee to get me going. Otherwise, I like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... . However, on Saturday I felt that I had enough time to both get some psets ... exam I would have to hop on getting the psets that I had fallen behind on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016