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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  the dates were during my spring break, said "heck yeah," and applied ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... path of UROPing on campus this summer. I lived at home (about 35 minutes ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Legacy of England (21L.420), then they are available! Another traditional duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food. Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  'm going to bed. Good night! Not the same few colleges: The University of ... ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  perspective as a member of this committee, and decided to apply. I'm really ... finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los ... , living group, activity, or current area of work. I think the official purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  kitchen and peered through one of Random Hall’s glass entrance doors, and ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you ... -seeded basketball team. You're probably receiving pressure and advice from tons of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  universities out there (some of which actually admit kids with no AP's!). Many of ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... there’s a bunch of IAP offerings on programming. The options include ... of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  -101. I was moving quickly down the hall last Thursday, not paying attention ... ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  Hall, the Media Lab, and a bunch of really weird sculptures. But ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006