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• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8 AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their ... the Great Plains. Here's my entire meeting schedule for the fall ... you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid that all my future female companions will end up in all the different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow ... Parade on January 2. Watch for the Pickerington band! And maybe watch for ... somehow end up giving my hairdressers when I'm getting my hair cut. ("No, we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  calendars until after EA selection, so I haven't had time for much else (although we were allowed to take thursday off for Thanksgiving). I spent Thanksgiving morning in the ER with my 6-month old son, after staying up all

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 'm looking for a large sample size, so don't be a lurker -- tell me why you ... for students who have an interview or have an interview waived is higher

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  alarm for 11:20 AM* 11:58 AM: *wakes up, peers at clock* *falls back ... even up to $30 to purchase supplies for Splash) to do whatever, and quite ... stuff: And finally! Weeee. Now you know why I can't wake up for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  thoughts about coding and my coding experience that have been building up for ... everyone else so coming up with solutions is just much, much harder for me. I ... catch up. It's hard for me to tell if this is what challenge is supposed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm.  11:30 — I slowly get up while cursing at the world. This term ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative ... sketchbook for daily use. I didn't end up using it much, but here's a water ... courses are open for sign-ups soon!

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for ... ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  Stata Center. I definitely need to up the contrast a bit for the next ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... up, their high school, and the people they met there influenced them and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  up until 3am almost every night for the past week, studying for tests. In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  taking your calls, receiving your emails, setting up interviews and writing reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  discovered a country during IAP, I discovered that I could never wake up for 10 ... outmaneuver any NYC taxi. The Motherland. I woke up last morning to the slow ... , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  So this is a big week. This, is not only production week for photography class (exhibitions for final projects are next monday), which is ... class, 2) required for physics majors so generally our little budding

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  waving parents and sister and dog, you head for the burritos, and you ... for you to eat this burrito without ketchup, and Angela, head ablaze, is laughing maniacally. Another lady comes up to the counter with a bag. "42

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... years. 1. The night before my final paper was due for 21L.009. This was ... still ended up learning a lot about the directorial techniques and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005