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• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could out to Rumney in New Hampshire. Then the second one to Quincy Quarries ... up to a cave (visible on the top left here), a difficult overhung

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  me proud to be at MIT. Being back on campus means being back in the ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like ... what my post-graduation plans were on the student financial aid form. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , and the one i attended was, somehow, yet another new experience. on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by another leaf, on the foot, two days ago. It wasn't a gentle smack, but it ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  an impact on the reader. If you want to diffuse power you can do it by ... sentence. On the other hand, you can condense power to shock or to exaggerate ... letting them read at the end of your second revision. Ask them to read after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  . Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... extraordinary and vibrant, and to make technological inroads that would change the ... !!!!!!! Lol...... Why the caps, to be honest, I am not really sure. I was just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... classes or about careers, and the only barrier to becoming close to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  to. Going in on the first day, I had absolutely no expectations. In my ... people who would go on to become part of my MIT family. On the first day, I ... efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... can’t fully process the extent of how I am changing. When I’m on campus, it’s just one thing after the other, without a chance to properly sit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my ... you to write a blog entry about your CPW experience. If you

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... anticipated. Tonight, pretty much the same story, but with no deadlines to shaft ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the first bus, and we got on the second. Then, there was the actual 1 ... /not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get ... heavy it began to feel. We began to think about the whole thing more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  coming") writes: "I would like to second the food question by Anonymous. I ... MIT), and they will forward it on to the appropriate department, whose ... decision about whether to go to MIT. On each of the seven dorm tours I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  .042 midterm of the semester, which took place on Tuesday. I managed to dedicate ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  material, either (it takes me 6.2 seconds to tie my shoes). I've got the ... adequately describe the incredible sight of 20,000+ people on their way to ... I got to deal with things we don't normally see on the ambulance, like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people ... on the walls of every house they lived in. “I want you to take it,” my ... I had the chance to.  I tucked the chess set away and sat back on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... -cross applesauce on the field, waiting for our rocket to be launched into the ... . Sounds like a pretty perfect afternoon to me. Part Two On the last Friday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at ... requirements, we now have the option to BOTH have schedules we enjoy and that are ... MassArt) The one class we decided to take together was our hardest one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018