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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a ... Matt McGann. I was introduced to him in January 2005 by a mutual friend ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  reserving some time in your day to paint. ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent ... and dislocate your knee cap just a few weeks into break, you, my friend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  's great to be in such a small department and get personal attention, but I ... or Wellesley for those esoteric art classes, but you're going to want a ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking ... hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a character, and then post it on a fan page. But no, we wrote this essay for no ... completely flipped our view of reading and writing. In preparation for a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English ... cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  Toks..) If you're struggling to get out of bed, play a playlist of morning hype ... so this is good!) Have a cup/bottle of water ready to drink by your ... . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... '07 is printing out in dazzling color as you read this, and nary a good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... RA who were initially deferred in EA. That's a small number, but to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial ... lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways ... - I went to my first dance class as a seven-year-old, and since then

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in ... chicken a lot. in fact, we looked forward to eating the chicken the day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... short montage of packing a backpack, taking meds, throwing on shoes, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... the excitement lied in the fact that I was not expecting to get into MIT ... you're getting other than little sleep. However, when I was able to see

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008