Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  learning, and if an education is what you want your daughter or son to get ... things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT ... miles from home. No coming home on the weekend to do laundry...that was

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  times in different lightings, trying to perfect how light works on the ... list than other cities I've been to and have been eager to get off campus ... photo of one painting, this was intentional to spark your curiosity about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always ... Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on the same day. My comment to Mollie: "Wow, you guys are going to share ... below the female median marriage age of 25.3. I'm not sure how to figure

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  them. For the I-9 form you will fill out once to receive access to all on ... case or bag. You will take your laptop everywhere. Also, don’t save $$ on ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your ... " part of "friend group," you’re on your own when it comes to [annotation ... Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on, and hear your thoughts on this whole admissions process. I look forward

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... , Sofia takes the folders on the trip upstairs to the admissions officers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... 10. (I guess when you're the president, you get to ask people to take ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  getting on campus in February, I was very excited to get makerspace training ... most part, a fine time. We did struggle with getting people to turn on ... classes, you might be wondering, “Waly, how was your semester,” but let us

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  .001, 6.001, etc. While this can be a great way to get your feet wet in a ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home ... that they were trying to get people to think about and get involved in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... -person workshops into online workshops that we can run on Zoom. We're also trying to ... track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  . The resort had a circus school, so I learned to go on the flying trapeze! The first time is absolutely terrifying...but you get used to it. I ... yellow and orange sail), I'm hoping one day I'll be good enough to go on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... from home. Thankfully, over time I learned how to manage the homesickness ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  , no matter how frustrating it is! Questions To Start: How big is your ... have to compromise on something if you play your cards right. The ... issue with my group was that we had no idea how many people would able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... , how to take notes on what I’m reading, how to take notes on lectures ... entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... 'm running out of time and energy to even get back up? How many more hits can I ... to get over these failures, no matter how many of them get thrown at me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  -- spots on campus 18.03 recitation (but don't date your TA until after ... about on your first date Toscanini's -- because I have a free ice cream ... has unlimited cheese samples, but Ben & Jerry's is easier to get to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007