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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe, the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer ... June… was followed by a walk around Sonoma, and through an amusing

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore ... , but without the FPOPs and orientation. I felt angsty because I felt like ... supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  Central Square last spring. I only had one pencil drawing and literally ... every so often and do whatever I wanted with the source material. Anyway, someone told me that Simmons looks like the Borg cube from Star Trek and I

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

    One warm night last summer, my roommate Penny ‘24 and I were ... and have fun!  The Infinite Infinite The first major letdown that one ... Infinite and out lobby 7 to grab a bite to eat from the [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very, very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  more intensive and test-prep-oriented. 12 - 1 I had a meeting with my ... presented my findings to her and worked with her to figure out the next steps ... Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL). My supervisor and I talked about some of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people ... shaped your dreams and aspirations? (200-250 words) Tell us about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I ... , first-year dinners, and a trip to Provincetown. Check 'em out during CPW ... making s'mores and telling coming out stories. I've gone twice so far

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  Dear Admitted, Current, and Former MIT Students, Now that the full ... on campus. Ask all the questions and address all the worries you ... universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food! If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don’t need ... students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be ... newest grades, and give you an opportunity to mention other updates since

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case, Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  pick up that terribly heavy pile of dirty clothes in your room and lug it all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and add some detergent and press a button and then take your laundry out and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don ... Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  , a recommendation and/or a transcript — of your Early Action ... for Early Action consideration. You should submit what you need, and we ... else, please read through this email for what to do next and for answers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At ... the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... good fit for MIT students (undergrads and graduate) who are interested in ... (s), while others make their decision based off of a resume and cover letter

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what a pre-teen looked like until I saw them navigating the cooridors and poking around ... things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012