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• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet ... way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  -intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page ... maximization). As you may have guessed, 14.33 also requires a lot of work. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope ... drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to ... asking questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying ... option for non-native English speakers: Test of English as a Foreign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... , and the glasses cause one of the images to enter one eye and the other

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on ... . There's actually quite a wealth of yummy, low-cal/fat food out there. My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... I am today. . . . while cultivating new friendships! Many of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of ... run out of clothes, and doing it weekly is actually much less stressful ... understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of ... excitement of getting into MIT hasn't totally worn off yet. What's that? You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be ... after completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school ... students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... gallon of milk every morning. I am well known among family for ripping off

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... everyone is feeling hosed right now - yup, and it's ONLY been 4 weeks of ... practically gallop. I think one of my fellow '11s put it quite well: "Taking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... me. – Felix"]new crop of bloggers.[/annotation] As I was combing ... note="more like sporadic brain dump of sounds but follow me on Spotify

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020