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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  application, I wrote a sample blogpost in response to the prompt 'What is your ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  and the hare is more about the tortoise's ability to keep going rather ... hurting and the project became much less interesting, that suffering just to ... and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  blogs are the most active bloggers and best make the transition to being ... of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is the single most important piece of art ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... Airbender with my friends every night, to work in the park near my apartment ... incredible. Just having the ability to be present in the city I love alongside

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  grants me a rare solitude in my suite kitchen. The counter is clear, all ... .']dorm[/annotation] is located directly next to the Charles River. There are several ... , and go to bed in the morning. At the start of the year, two friends came

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So ... will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... senior year, I didn’t technically select schools to apply to in the College

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track ... . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... 'm very grateful that this is the stress that I have in my life, as opposed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... begin next Wednesday.  The Red Sox are in first place.  And MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of ... So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide ... million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition ... talk about your research in the college application process. The TL;DR is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... logic but not the reaction. The author is trying to be offensive on ... the ground to mail to my sister. 12:30 → The T ride back is accompanied

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  people who thinks that Stata is the most hideous excuse for a building I ... adds several "hardk0re"ness points to the project, in my opinion. As ... ...that's what the person holding the camera told me to do. *shrug* In other news

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the following question: "What is the most important challenge facing our world

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... - The basic gist is this- instead of going out to dinner, we’ll feed you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... buildings weren't in the way because I bet the sky is beautiful... and thus ... walked 19,000 steps in the process of trying to pack all my stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to ... , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013