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• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long ... , man. You turned out alright. At the culmination of this penultimate ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the ... business day. I miss having most of my friends at an arm’s reach.   It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  'll go to class, but at the end of the day I just want to go home, back to ... out anymore; I usually go to bed at the oh-so-early hour of 1 AM. I ... aside the ethics of saying that to a child, I was glad to hear it at the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are ... Science' degree?" Yes, at the undergrad level. If you major in Literature ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of ... apply for the Master of Library Science program at the University of ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  underrepresented students at MIT, I think of one of our students who is an aspiring ... works at MIT in the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs trying to ... officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  program at MIT, which “brings together distinguished members of the faculty ... ’ve worked with c: 2019 Oh man, look at all of the [annotation note="if you ... all of our program directors and operations. We had weekly meetings (at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  at the expense of putting something else off until later. Being in my ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken ... . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... interested in then e-mail ALL THREE OF US at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of ... departing group of hallmates at 3 AM, in the middle of the winter, in flip

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  occurred at Cambridge City Hall, a mile or so north of MIT. The campus ... 's course catalog and looked closely at MIT's offerings and faculty in ... school at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... its instructors were wonderful at supporting everyone with all levels of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  or radio necessary :)  I've been spending a lot of time at the DZ and ... jumping out of planes.  We jump at Skydive Pepperell, shoot me an email if ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  other summer interns at Microsoft NERD. To top it off, the new season of ... finally was on top of everything. I had planned to post this at the end of ... final-round onsite at a startup for a full day of interviews. I arrived on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I did. Not at all. Rather, I look back at those years because of the ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... of Clay at a certain internet message board at which Sam's Mom may or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  competition Scrutineering portion of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) began at ... Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... encouragement you provided. Some of the team members at the finish line

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018