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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  soon. In these pages, I hope to create something of a window into my ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city ... you're in high school, probably a junior or a senior who's in the middle

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  their fellow mortals, only get to attend a fraction of the events they ... ordinances. In addition to making a fine grilling platform, it has an excellent ... supposed to be sleeping in suite 223. From about midnight to 4am, there was a

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  middle of your sophomore year, to allow time to get a pre-medical advisor ... rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... halls. Google pulled a very EC stunt in setting up a roller coaster inside ... actual Google house) to anyone willing to wait two hours in the line (not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... (163cm 50kg) as a sophomore in high school. We were seven people short of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to ... minutes out of your busy days to say “hi” and get to know people you see in ... you’re a freshmen looking to hang out with your fellow classmates or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into ... understand. Just know that you're going to be evaluated in your own unique

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... satisfaction in mounting things to a wall" /] I finished the structural modifications in the first two weekends and plan to get aesthetic modifications

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  really about to spend the money to book a flight to Vegas to go to CES in ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since ... stand directly in its path. Oh, also, holograms. Coming soon to a future

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  on Massachusetts Ave., a very short walk to Target or Hmart, so it must ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... year is a pretty normal time for biology people at MIT to get involved

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... in half before putting it on your lap; when drinking a glass of wine ... straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one ... here. I'm also glad just to know I'm in college getting an education, so

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the ... . It has to be an idea you really like. Drew: Start early, and get a ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011