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• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  . Stress over whether or not I was doing enough to get into graduate school ... teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... feel like I need to push myself harder and harder to get into a good

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  bashes a thinly-disguised ex and upload it to Soundcloud only to get two ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  lonely? But I also adore a wide-open schedule, getting to watch whatever I ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  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 [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it

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

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since ... hours later, I'm starting to feel like I'm spiraling into anxiety about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... 's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  said in order to get this kid to make this face. Also there was the ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  "...woops, wrong HAL. Anyway, let's get back to the Fourth. Two years ago, my ... Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try ... Harvard as the primary reason I started thinking seriously about going to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  the dates of summer activities section, we're just trying to get a sense ... chance for the admissions office to get to know you better. Susan wrote ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  to boldly go…

  

  our showerhead broke     happy last week of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul ... ? *cough*) get off the runway. It’s hard to get their support though. They

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... in class we got to break away fromo background information to get some ... passion is needed to such extent to get selected i am already in.:P my eassy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006