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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... by the building. The students began to harass the tour guide from their ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  didn’t think it was possible for me to understand. By the end of the UROP ... out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool ... while longer. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my stir

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... passers-by stop to watch us. To be performing again, to be whole, to ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  to get your adventurous little self out of the country! I know this ... have any interest whatsoever, try as hard as you can to get the ... paperwork and other stuff to get done as soon as possible, but it's not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... [by Danbee Kim '09] It's familiar. It's even more familiar when a ... , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  [/annotation] concerts after that but didn't get to go to any others. later, I went to the ... , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by ... commitments, it really feels impossible to get everything done sometimes. but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  to inform how we create welcoming spaces, but also to help me get ... to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick ... 't just about picturesque scenes of snow and charming moments by the fire

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which the boys’ successes get recognized and their talents get directed ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  safety net vanishes. By then, you'll have to adapt. So I guess for now ... professors, from people in S^3 (if it pertains to getting good academic habits ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... yawned wider by the day. In every field I turned to, the same question ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then ... response to the first day of class could only be tied to that feeling you get ... not trying to learn swimming all by yourself, it’s a group effort that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015