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• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  you have a library card? 'Cause I'm checking you out." "Baby, can I be ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can ... recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... inclusions: Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson: I haven't actually listened

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  in Early Action. When should I fill it out? As soon as possible ... an option where you can indicate this. I am homeschooled. Do I still ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of my friends said she spent $700 on books already...we can find used books around here can't we?" (sorry, Laura, I know you asked other

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn ... you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  working out content for the show week-to-week, but I can now tell you more ... finally announced (so I can stop excitedly bouncing in my chair while ... of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  energy and encouragement — and in user testing, the Institute ... is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... fortunate. This is the point I tried to make in my blog post Life is Improv

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have ... airport, and now you can pick out individual birds on the ground, and where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  . I spent several hours immersed in rummaging through and reminiscing ... , flyers, postcards, and everything in between contained. I made a big fun mess in the kitchen, but I consolidated everything into one notebook that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  then you can say all this. But to be honest, I've finished that book now ... . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... beaver is sitting on eight ivy leaves. I'll let you fill in the blanks on ... out in the branches (note: this detail is not at all subtle in this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... couple friends and I conveniently watched this summer out of boredom ... shout it out by myself (but she made sure my hand stayed up and in sight

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013 ... in a few weeks, or in a few years, I hope that you can do that too." i ... into a unified person i could recognize in the mirror. as i grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... universe. I've always liked to take the telescope out at night and look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one ... got to campus and everything was great. I made new friends, freaked out ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006