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• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  this strange new place home. I feel lucky to be living in a place where ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice ... right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... different from yours. This opportunity, in fact, may turn out to be the one ... , because I read all about you in your applications. Thanks to you, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in college. Besides, as in the good ol' childhood times, it’s always fun to meet and get to know people by playing games. It’s no secret that MIT is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  required for entrance to universities in your country. We understand that ... /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor/principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made ... mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ="communication-intensive class in your major -- you need two to graduate, and they're usually lab ... as a continuation of my work in 16.831, and now I’m planning to go to ... , or pointing BeaverCube in the right direction. This has proven to be a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Brooklyn named Abi (if you're reading this, hi Abi!). After a quick stop at ... it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... excited to join the blogs. I want to pay it forward - to be a window into

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  heading to the tunnels. If you're interested in learning more about/getting ... opportunities to participate in student-run activities at MIT. Yeah that’s a ... CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up ... factory in the Himalayas. Sabu proceeds to burst into a song about how he

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... currently pursuing a PhD in analytical biochemistry. Here she is on PBS ... : She was your typical biochemistry "whiz kid", who geeked out as a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the dock. In order to get away from the dock, you have to get the boat ... that. But if you were, as a matter of fact, you’re right! I have a story ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  So I just read this article in Time Magazine about bringing schools out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

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

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... wait until my second semester to begin a UROP, so that I could get ... development. Half way through, I got to sit in a meeting with Sangeeta Bhatia

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023