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• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  . For the rest of the evening I'll usually chill, or hang out with someone ... fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  year and am hanging out with different groups of people every day. I don ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Representation of Yan ran into The Virtual Representation of Katelyn '12, who, incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway ... the unquestionable truths of Facebook status update. This was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  universities, extremely open-minded and supportive of diverse populations, people ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  throughout the majority of the day until the evening, when I was hanging out at ... kind of here. Thus, as any other 19-year-old would, I started my day off ... –the president of SAE. And you could probably further imagine my surprise at being

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... schoolwork, I've had crazy amounts of free time recently. Not that I've really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I ... been before, as a frequenter of [annotation note="the other libraries on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  ’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn ... has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your ... early, write often, and prepare to throw most of your ideas away

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of ... -somethings than something-teens. i regretted not living in seattle instead of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  how painfully obvious that was. Of course you have to do your best. How ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on what choices students should make to help their chances of coming to MIT ... cite the FIRST robotics competition as one of many excellent and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  . The women's track team had a baking night where we made one of our ... that's just an effect from the hardened frosting!By the end of IAP, I ... an hour of free time between the end of a long run and a rehearsal

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011