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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the ... spring out of a bush and detain me for stealing a bike lock). Then I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end ... for two hours, while they explained everything from their choice of ... .670) for two weeks of IAP. The class meets every day from 9 AM - 4 PM and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select ... to another district with more opportunities; some will send the student ... 'll for the most part treat them as any other application, but we will ask a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  written about you (or, parents, your son or daughter), send it along and I ... for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite ... stop was that I was looking for, because I was sort of lost -- he almost ... , I don't really remember. MIT currently asks people not to send resumes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  selection; some schools use the tests primarily for placement after admission. For most schools they are required, for some they are optional. Private ... applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... . Sewing? Not consistent enough. Running? Not something I did for fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... again with Trimps. You trap these creatures called Trimps, and send them ... for months and not reach the end of it, and new content is still being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ="Translation: to send an email to all the dorm mailing lists, often to advertise an ... Sciences"]HASS[/annotation] reading. It's good for you. Take a class that ... [/annotation] for at least one semester. Find something fun to do with your extra time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters ... students and talks about neurotransmitters and drugs for 90 minutes. He does ... . (Please send any hypotheses you may have to keri-lee at mit dot edu. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I ... baguettes. Usually when there's food at desk, it's free for the taking, but I ... minutes before I came back for good, and it wasn't there then, so I thought

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send ... “First Year HASS Experience” (common humanities classes required for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  festivities. Definitely check those pages out for some awesome pyrotechnic ... , folks. But read on; if you finish the whole entry Marilee Jones will send ... to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  reading. I send an email for my acapella group. I look at my to-do list ... mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... Twitter for a few minutes. It is senior year, and I have gotten the art of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... frozen grapes and chocolate for breakfast. when i leave my apartment, it ... at my 6.UAR (superurop) recitation. we just recorded short talks for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has ... upper MG (middle grade; for ages 8-12) contemporary fantasy novel. During

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... hiccup in English), however, has had me scrambled in thoughts for days now ... ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  Picture for me, if you will, all your favorite celebrities. These are ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013