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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like ... online again and ready to blog about what's happened so far (: As far as

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I mean 'since I became an admissions blogger'. To this day, I maintain that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  'll find students making time to rise up to that challenge. That's what ... societies at MIT to serve the community at large. "Kristi, Sally and I decided that we wanted to associate service with arguably the most memorable

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way. When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday, August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  "), we admitted 1611 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  -y - maybe it's that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it's that we ... class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally ... those who will come here to study, despite the difficult times — indeed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by quite quickly. Unfortunately, when I got to MIT, the work continued but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a ... -playing. The players are essentially actors, doing their best to act out the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1554 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student, you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the ... extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed ... long since my last entry, but also, my parents will be calling to see if ... . (I mean, I...) Phillippe wonders: When do freshman get to see the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks ... relevant to my story. Saturday night, I was going to Rax '04's house because ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually, I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005