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• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... introduces the OC ECs. I think all of the Admissions Officers were just a ... . Today's college visitors (left); a discussion with Whitney students, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 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 / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which ... jigging of my own. Things were pretty crazy around here last night

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  . Little did she know, college coddles your children and provides a lot of ... Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college ... My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  rigorous and exciting challenge of our whole life thus far. College students ... explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... -hour red blocks, many of which overlap. He talks me through how this week he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... an “Institute of Technology.”  Having been talking to other class of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I know that. Lots of things happened, and particularly this fall (what with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Philippines and having too negative of an overall tone for a college essay ... Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023