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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  to disagree but talking with people you disagree with forces you to ... who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to MIT forced me to be a lot more independent than I ever was. As the ... time awesome to think that I'm actually growing up and doing my own things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college (we just finished hosting Campus Preview Weekend to help our admitted ... might want to apply to college, and high school freshmen and sophomores

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Go back to December 16, 2010. It was just another Thursday night ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  person, it can either force you to be much more productive, or much less ... advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  class from the Admissions Office to the Academic Resource Center (ARC ... ? A cover letter from Marilee, formally transitioning you to the ARC ... wisely. Feel free to choose something with some personality, if you like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... 's website: "Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held ... objects from Koch's many collections -- from ancient Roman to contemporary

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ; have many friends who choose to eat meat but I never force my vegetarian ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... direct communication helps those of you who weren’t able to visit during

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for ... much." "You have too many jobs." "Rachel, just go to sleep!" "Is it ... ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... :30am this morning. Congratulations to Dr. Awkward, the winning team. 6

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of ... cookies promised, and more candy than anyone cares to think about. Did I ... . ------------------ Hey, Burton-Conner-ites! Think you know everything there is to know

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  really wanted to go to. the fear of mis-optimizing is back in full force ... able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to me and forced me to challenge any assumptions I might have had about ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... with the results. You decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005