Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then ... I, had gotten a postcard while nobody else had. There's not much else

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT's semesters. Many of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to ... goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... to splash those walking besides me). I’m not quite sure how guys do it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  guitar significantly at all because I don't get much time to practice and ... free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  of eh. If you really need to procrastinate, just youtube "MIT ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the link is to last year's site), which this year falls around Drop Date, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... checklist, which will now be turned off. If you still need help after that

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  across the country come just to get their pediatric care. All we need from ... to be grateful for. That's something that this semester has really taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... acclimated to an entirely new environment and culture.  I went straight from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book ... my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to class, went to soccer practice, went home, watched cartoons, then went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  extremely small sample size. Q. I don't need good extracurriculars to apply ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  loves me and is really excited that I got in and is also really excited to ... much more substantial entry coming soon - but speaking of rockstars, last week I went to two very incredible shows by two of my favorite bands (not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  acclimated to what they need to do and how they can go about doing it, but the ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  about going to MIT was that I wouldn't have the time to do as much ... at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  . It was so much fun. We stuffed a bag full of apples and then went to ... little too much to drink. We went to various pubs afterwards and I think ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... you're sleeping, you're also doing something wrong. There is so much going on, and I don't remember getting much sleep whether it was checking

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... REX events. I'm going to need to offer advice to incoming first years ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023