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• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... it. Akash continued that he was thinking about trying to get us into a ... , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  MIT's campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door, through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  for this one. It's unfortunate that I won't actually get to visit ... Yes, you read that title right. I'm going to be studying abroad this ... "] Budapest looks weirdly similar to MIT?[/caption] It was over Zoom, and there

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which the boys’ successes get recognized and their talents get directed ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  fun. We get to spray each other with water while prototyping our pump ... . Sounds pretty fun! Feel free to email Tiffany at tifa(at)mit.edu or get in ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these ... people go on to write their ideas out. The minority that does go to the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away ... do you get exposed to all of these opportunities?" I think the simple ... fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... , although we only managed to get up to around 38 before program coordinator Dr ... to name my Marya (MAR-ee-uh). Marya Maurer. As it was, Sam's Mom wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  at her middle school to score high enough to get in to Stuyvesant, one ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... days, you could find them there getting drunk. Not the falling down kind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  mandrill" with a long cylindrical prong to get a perfect circle. Once that ... get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... kid who's into science; most don't get the chance to spend time with ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013