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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more ... , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... forward on their seats because of the hard chair back. Wooden Holy Chair

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  friends on their way to interviews with some of the world's biggest banks ... The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... this new era where communication occurs rapidly and information is only a

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , usually in the form of rain. The sky broke as though on cue as we finished ... . The rain kept dripping on the three of us. He handed me the balled up ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  went to see an Opera on this year’s New York Art Scholar’s Trip! This was ... haha. Musicals are more of our thing (re: number 15 on this list ... This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... be the single most important part of your application. Most of our

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  anyone so acutely aware of their presence and impact on others, someone who ... 've really relied on and especially appreciated these past couple of months. I ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... the prefrosh, as we expected. For most of Friday, the students on my ... icebreakers Thursday night (he's the one in the gray sweatshirt). The three of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• 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 / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  a new line of plush toys that seek to increase understanding of ... eavesdrop on a ridiculous conversation you're having with a third party. I ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... other bits and pieces of buildings strewn throughout Boston and Cambridge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these ... . * * * Our training begins on Monday March 24. Around ten of us have arrived in ... communicates in two directions: he advocates on behalf of the astronomy community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... , when students go to tons of fun events at dorms to explore different

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... just as many new buildings, made of the same red brick. Mountains ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  on track to finish. And then… Dawn of Bad Ideas Weekend Saturday ... , one of which we spray painted white. We put some finishing touches on ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  this time! You will arrive on campus ahead of the upperclassmen at the ... (s)/minor(s)/concentration, and, two, you can look at the average number of hours spent per week on ... —a new form of strong concrete was developed just to build EC! And that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... baking. We had a tumblr that we posted all of our makings on, and it had ... happened in the beginning of junior year. One classmate, who we worked on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... , with two separate bedrooms on either side of the main living area ... out of the hotel by noon and are taxied over to the new hotel with the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023