Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  floors/halls/entries of the dorm. Then you fill out yet another preference ... people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  decent chance of admission, from applying. This would also give confidence ... sting of rejection even harsher. Second, even if I applied this year, with ... I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... -Orientation Programs–totally not required to apply, but they're super fun ... hobbies, what you do for fun outside of class, what your advisor should know

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are simply impossible to answer outside of selection committee. To everyone who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was one of those experiences where you come away with distinct feelings, although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  planned to take any of the many game related class offered through CMS. I ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones ... known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it ... specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister ... reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming admissions decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... -induced stress (yes, already), and of course free food. Already, many notable ... , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he ... premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don ... he saw my blog entry last August, regardless of what his bio says. Ha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019