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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cancellation fee instead of spending four times that much to half-heartedly see a ... whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  conference, and that I got my registration fee waived, I was stoked to go ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  entrance fee was too much for either of us, so it would have to be subsidized ... willing to front the entrance fee so just as long as we know some financial ... warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... blog post to remind applicants that last year we published an FAQ ... everyone here wants to make sure our application process is as fair as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  .  Tetazoa would often organize large Domino’s orders to save on delivery fees ... approximately $40 because those body pillows had to be purchased. Unfortunately ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  . Exemption from the FEE gives you the sweet freedom to take any writing class ... Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out ... acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  means I don't have to take the FEE, but do I still get 9 unrestricted ... Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Did you go to Senior Ball? I think ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... not expect to like Houston. But now I understand the phrase "southern

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  . Concepts applied to simple computing circuits in the behaving animal. M. Fee ... only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... West to get there. GAHHH). We all got off from work pretty late, but decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  not eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created ... With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  floor when we realized that one has to pay a ridiculous entrance fee up ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... wanted to write about Early Action and Regular Action (EA and RA) since we

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then ... important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... float up to the top. "Huh," I said. "That's weird." And proceeded to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... √ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... ? Mmm, I'm applying to Internal Medicine residency this year - we'll see

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014