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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS ... dorm, but of course had to move out once I was no longer an undergrad ... . Instead, I chose to move into an off-campus apartment with three of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange ... this frat. But I will say that after coming to MIT, my opinions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... the care of her boyfriend, and went down the hall to check on the others

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn ... enough, but I still mourned the loss of being able to take notes on a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the ... departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Aerospace Engineering to organize ... signing. And, MIT Press provided copies of Hidden Figures to students for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  smattering of low-impact projects and a lot of friends. i trust my ability to ... know i’ll be able to do them again when i need to? last week one of my ... still important decisions up ahead, and some of the options will lead to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  prefer email for these sorts of inquiries, and would like for Spam U. to ... potential of these social sites is for y'all to guide us around their pitfalls ... , chats, pages, etc) would you like to see more of? Would you play an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  wearing eyeshadow; that's just what my eyes look like after I forced them to ... thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to ... DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... less of "this needs to be your top priority", but they are substantial ... with blogs that don't bother adding a few lines of code to separate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website ... definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with ... helpful to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you ... end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news ... need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The ... the fair or during an interview. The way I like to think of it is, if a ... think of as your "hook." What is it that you want the recruiters to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  of ways to do it, visiting, info sessions, websites, etc. She mentions ... always involved hour drives to Portland, free pitchers of water, free pens ... . The format for the evening will be each of the representatives to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of ... an effort to introduce you to a slice of our Greek community, each ... , all of these organizations, as well as many others, will be present to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  force of gravity again. We were so close to finding out about our ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  of a thing to happen to someone so large. Another thing that caught me ... from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... that the simple version is out of the way, it’s time to mention what he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021