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• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though, check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... _parser.py".) Originally, the website was built using the Google Maps API, but Google

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  the things you use in your daily life; don't buy anything extra, except ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... volunteer to work on someone's farm, hostel, airbnb, or house, and in exchange

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS North's Footloose this week. He rocked in the show (with some crazy solos ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements.  
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... for information about non-MIT meal kits and meal prices in general. The ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next ... : it can be tedious and time-consuming, but you've gotta do it. And in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly train in chess" so he could later challenge Chambers in a chess match and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  standing around in Best Buy, confusing every single customer and employee ... About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  located strategically to get maximal sunshine exposure in the afternoon =p ... this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  , napped in the sunshine while flipping through a library book, awoke to the ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  -the-clouds, basking in the sunshine for a little while…You've worked hard (so, so, hard ... ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well, it was during the pandemic, so we were buying very few things. there was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  —imagine being in a museum where you could buy any exhibit (if you have the ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... for you! Sure, students have less time for books in college, but we don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... 't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022