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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston ... -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I’ve concluded from the past three years of college life: People are not as cool ... about - academics, career, finances, etc.- so much so that the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, despite the title of this entry): Of Montreal and ... ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess's favorite people ever, and I called Jess the minute I found out I got into MIT

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

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... messy, so it was a little hard to take pictures of the steps along the way

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  class about the art of creating electrical devices which use power ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at ... 've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... track of how many times I've gotten Chipotle this semester? The answer, by

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  having trouble using our site on mobile devices because the navbar and first blog weren't clickable. The upshot is that our CDN was for some injecting visibility:hidden to a div at the top of the page. It's been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex ... aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex's college choice at the Doonesbury Strawpoll. Interestingly, two recent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  . What's up with the international selection? We're still reviewing international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... 'll mail all regular action decisions together at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  my last trip I took pictures of my Central Meetings and promised to put ... -related blues... so sad. But Amrys, formerly the coolest MIT Admissions Officer ... entry the other day, which I won't steal outright but will link to: a post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  required to send your official scores as part of your application ... you submit the application, you are still able to add them by following the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to ... masochistic way, I miss the tooling until early morning learning all of ... So it's mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  , condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that connects the subway, buses, and trains. My friend Seema '09 (Course 14

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 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 ... thing. Sometime near the end of freshman year I made a list of all the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online ... ... presence. :) Techfair is one of my highlights of the spring semester and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... are, without a doubt, the single most talented and interesting group of ... 200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012