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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  INTO MIT! I want to dance around for the rest of the day, I swear. You ... 'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places ... into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar instance, while we were moving into our temp rooms as little baby prefroshies ... toothpaste.   *and yes, we got into/came to MIT together. Though

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  we divided into our cliques and groups. Many of us loved to hate the ... members of us broke into the dining hall during its off-hours and stole ... students out of the assembly lines and into a row in the back, the “shame row

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , and so, after my ill-paced dive into the world of monetary policy—plus a ... When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 ... horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... , Thursday, Friday. A march of things to do, every minute of the day wrangled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was ... meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to

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

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into ... faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed into the World Trade Center," Brian quietly informed me. Only then did I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... , man), the blogs were my first window into MIT - my first glimpse into ... what I saw - not just the content of the blogs, but also the fairly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  dressed), and headed into lab. 1:00 PM -- I did a bunch of lab stuff ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  As of last fall, I officially moved out of Maseeh and into 3W ... of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... overwrite history, though, we caught wind of an ancient Floorpi tradition

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  found a cluster of people wearing maroon, and I immediately fell into a ... encourage you to have some fun with the people here, look into some of the ... So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the ... was tired, I don't regret a second of it.  I love learning more about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... student office. About half an hour later, I found more pictures of Raphael: under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to ... constantly travel around and make plans with people instead of retreating into ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  got a piano, and Harry and Sam came into possession of ukuleles, and Ale ... ." So I dumped the remainder of my IAP paycheck into a violin and an alto ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  39 other students as the Phoenix Group moved into a wing of NW35 ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010