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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... , getting to choose which of my tasks to tackle next instead of being forced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog’ to me since she has decided that there are better and productive

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We ... are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... three of us were working on getting the website and applications up. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... referred to as J-Lab, because it's usually taken by physics majors in their ... do so, I need to get better at my science writing - so that's one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... sadly entirely over, at least for now. I might get to help out next year ... program. You get used to the comfortable college “monoculture.” At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world ... an honor to get the opportunity to see him speak. The talk was slated

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread ... , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see ... didn't get admitted to MIT. Here’s what you should read this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  what happened to colin's computer: If you go into my google search ... old are my kittens dammit" "How do you get kittens to sleep at night and ... they totally have so they get to eat more and poop more the second floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  for how you can get to know MIT better -- a great starting point are ... through your website. Thanks for inspiring our kids to dream...and to work ... It's time to answer your questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... will be alright. Actually, it will be a driving force to help you get ... to join the team, go ahead! "In any case, if you get the feeling that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is completely optional, yet, if you find the right one to attend, you will get the ... Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  fall, I was surrounded by my trauma. I remember feeling an obligation to ... other TAs noticed him getting close to me and were considering going to ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at ... this gif a lot to get it to upload :'([/caption] junior spring  Come

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  -Hsuan back. Joe didn't ask too many question by the time it got to him. Joy ... to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006