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• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is ... don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  bloggers will fill in the story. And there are two tributes to old friends ... At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... owe the readers some blog posts. But I'm not going to worry about that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  in this way for five nights, and then the final bracket was revealed to ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple ... puck around the rink, and hopefully, into the goal. However, each goal is

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs ... of beautiful abstraction in the interlude? The ability to write about ... my hall, and I expect to be detained by people. In the evenings, they

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  available. I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent apartments and such. i dunno, back in the philippines being able to pay your ... night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... email to inquire about missing documents. The MyMIT tracking is up-to ... . Finally, I hope you'll join me in saying thanks to the entire Records

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  everything is wonderful and I'm thriving. We're in the midst of national and ... turning down the opportunity to live in Boston during the academic year. Was ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  example: the word "and" in Spanish is "y" (pronounced like a long E), while the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  ; Marvel in a cool way: UROP! To set the scene: It was my first IAP. I was ... -based UROP."]MIT in the Marvel Multiverse.[/annotation] Needless to say, I was ... restaurant (Chik-fil-A) in the first line of my email “to demonstrate that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  lists? messaging out "is anyone awake? wanna talk?" in the middle of an ... formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... ... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home that’s

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

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... is scheduled to open within the next month. My lab, as noted above, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly ... 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012