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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  UROPs in his lab that he's actually just one of the most hardworking and ... was just thinking, UROP (pronounced "yer op"), is actually one of the ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... of birth are included, as well as the word "QuestBridge." Once you ... interview happened two or more weeks ago AND you have submitted Part 1 of the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on ... ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... rain whipping in the faces of thousands upon thousands of runners is ... ended up learning the true meaning of determination. Or that I lost three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the ... to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of ... old. The semester is winding down, like someone's demented yo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we ... -- it should be great, since I really feed off of the energy of large ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh ... something right now. Here are some of my favorite pieces from the semester ... odd hours of the night) The sidewalk that goes down memorial drive (I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  how you guys are doing by calling all 390 of the early admits (sometimes ... my first shift on the ambulance, but it's currently out of service due ... So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a ... jelly beans that resembled the colors of their logo...and no it was not Mc

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the ... the first time), and I have a better grasp on the actual stakes of a ... of what my career will look like in the next several years and what I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn ... any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit ... that are defined by the things I do alone. I see growing up less of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... fluidity club on campus! Fun Fact: The exec people of all these four clubs ... have our tables near each other in the Gay corner of Activities Midway

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall ... of the fact that you applied to MIT, one of the most selective schools ... done for the sole reason of getting into MIT, then you're doing it wrong

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and ... culture of the host country." Other cool things about MISTI: - intensive ... laboratories, and universities around the world; - support of MIT faculty for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  mistake once." I don't think I've ever pushed the bounds of mistake ... . This is turn explains why I've spent the last two hours of my life ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  of the Wall Street Journal (sorry Mitra), Ruth applies the first gentle ... distance of MIT, so that's where we went. On the way, we passed by the MIT ... is the color of a green tea frappucino. Then we celebrated Gemma's un

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005