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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  Snively would call this the bloggers’ freebie post. I would disagree, having never taken advantage of the “hey kids, look at my schedule!” post before. I’d say the freebie post…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  of the Show on G4 tomorrow, they're doing a feature on Mystery Hunt

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  . Wisdom, G. J. Sussman   18.700 Linear Algebra ______ Undergrad (Fall

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of the last five days, with exaggeration inserted only when absolutely, absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM – I wake up. Come…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you’re working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay,…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario possible. You can imagine…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso, TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: “I just flew in from El…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I’m not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means going…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  ;So Chance Me Maybe?” by Joel G. ‘18, “Being &lsquo ... (e.g. transcript, test scores, letters of rec), or if you faced ... “Second Semester Senior” by Selam G. ‘18 &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... New York, and I hate living alone. My friends have already heard me ... , I feel dead and lifeless."]I hate living alone,[/annotation]so in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of ... about the history (Chess Records, anyone?) than actual live performances

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... find a place that actually can make a living off Pogo stick classes to ... living in the same place as I “work” (whether that be studying or working

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  staffed by BC residents who make sure anyone who doesn't actually live here ... floor of BC. So when someone says they live on Burton 1, they actually live on the second floor. Also, the dorm is split into two sides- Conner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , but the irony is most people live in the watery areas. Austin is lush ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... live music. There’s SO much water! Austin is a green city. You can go

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  's amazing post "Black Lives Matter" (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4 ... excerpt….). After getting to MIT and living here MIT slowly just became ... that fact. MIT was simply just a place I happened to live; it was no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  apologize for that in advance. --- Paul joined a fraternity, and now lives at his fraternity. Snively didn't join a fraternity, and lives at his dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  about which I had no strong feelings, but wouldn’t mind living in. On ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... students living in Senior House in their first term at MIT graduated within

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017