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• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  getting really bored. Besides, I wanted a faster way to get around campus ... also makes falling a little safer, since you’re closer to the ground. I ... griptape. Actually getting myself to step on the board was a physical and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... you're just glad you made it to the end—but nonetheless you've made it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  room selection. Your goal is to maximize your score. Your score is ... of being more preferred by the other players, so I decided to pick only ... : sleep, social life, and school. MIT wants to identify the best student

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... that one in. So the answer is something close to 1/370.86 * 1/12ish ... I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to ... my deepest, darkest secrets onto the Internet for everybody to read ... started writing my blog for the MIT Admissions website. A lot of the blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  loves her some frappuccino, so we decided to get right back on the T and ... you're not allowed to photograph the interior of a Starbucks for ... nothing else to do, we capped off the evening by strolling into the nearby

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  encourage you to build your own “sounds like home” playlist, compiling the ... lacked the inspiration—and the activation energy—to get started. And now ... This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  have to say, though, a neck brace is THE way to travel. Know those ... .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday ... earshattering speakers on the bus. Despite Bob's best efforts, I still managed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  whole mess getting ready to be sad. It's like, you know when you're going ... 's moving with the earth. (Why would you ever want to move faster? Is hurtling ... remember lining up to get onto the stage, walking down after getting my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... extra effort not to fall, because the trail itself is a four foot wide ... , I occasionally 'took breaks' by standing to the side so people coming

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  sugar and caffeine to get me through the day left me exhausted at night ... blocks to get me where I wanted to go.    Mid-way through sophomore ... how to restructure their lives around virtual learning. This is the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out lengthy manned flights to Mars and beyond, engineers must protect the safety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my ... games. groupchats. or the og groupchats, mit mailing lists. ways to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next ... . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be ... important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  fabricates drama where there is none. it’s like the saying that your spouse is ... that these days i try not to hate anything, because the act of hating is ... myself feel sad, while all my friend is doing is trying their best to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  . On our way to dinner, Adam made the brilliant decision to jump over a ... . To be honest, I was completely and totally sick of snow by the end of ... probably the most important factors. GPA is also important, but you get a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to see your decision by clicking View Update. There are no interim screens

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024