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• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  going to come to your house and punch you in the face if you don't listen ... . Wear purple sweats. Come to school in the purple sweats your aunt bought ... (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  most," Patty Pounds said. "She had the drive and ambition to do it." But ... influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in

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

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM, got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... are right – or wrong. The early setback is really an extra impetus to ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most ... to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... photo album and my mom ordered a small wooden box to put her ashes in. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  ), Burchards is designed to be an "intellectual feast of the greatest minds in ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... all of the links to wikipedia, that is effort and i am lazy and want to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  mostly from the East Campus dorms and the ILG Epsilon Theta. People in the ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have ... attempted to dance twice, not counting flailing around to music in the living

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  have chosen to defer it…" The reading voice in my head faded out, disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make sure it was real, and then left the room to run as much of my speech as I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... .  The final score in the decision matrix is not what determined my ... ? Yes. No. Maybe.  In the end I decided to spend my summer in Houston

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi ... -Conner cardio room. Normally this is the worst thing in all recorded history (in ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... design is that you get to actually see your work in use, especially when it ... again in order for the glaze to melt and solidify into glass. I just got

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... university. Transfer admission is extremely competitive. The answers to ... reminders: The transfer application deadline is November 15. (There will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in ... 7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  .math.& tech. academy in the midwest ranked 8 of 667,she didn't get much respect ... application essay. The key is to find the right balance between giving detailed ... relates back to the question they actually asked you in the first place

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One ... applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006