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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... a bajillion pictures - as per female i-must-take-pics-of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we ... in its place is a sense of accomplishment. Every year understanding a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  Recommended by the Department of Mechanical Engineering." Because 2A is cooler ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  the "Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time" crap and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... 's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 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 ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream-of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  to see what kind of deals we could find. Trekking down the Infinite ... a room on the second floor of Building Four where they were casting ... stairwell of Building 4, an intrigued Diana looks at the sign advertising the

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words

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

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... : throwing, catching, offense, defense, speed…pretty much everything. Then by

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very ... began with a very steep ascent, which involved a lot of huffing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014