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• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him ... freshmen in my suite about how the story behind my accident is really lame and how I needed to come up with something cooler to tell people. Laura

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... reality, which doesn't always match up to ours. Some things I can actually

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  ="368"] the moment of truth. let's see if i can swim 100 continuous meters...[/caption] [caption id="attachment_110810" align="aligncenter" width="381"] I CAN!! I PASSED WOOOO[/caption] Now I can graduate!! Yay!!!!

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they've won. Wow! I am impressed by how many ... winner, but by the list you can see we are feeling the holiday cheer! The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... , I was shocked when I received a deferral letter in the mail - and this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... 's really not a problem, which I'll explain in a second. By now, you've heard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  . As always, I promise to let you know as soon as I can -- hopefully soon ... event this Thursday at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. I hope you'll be there! If you didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily ... enough, i can say whatever i want to. amongus skibidi toilet. haha

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a peace sign, but, and I quote, "as an otaku, that can only be 'V for ... in California than Boston in the EST. So I'm not really being fair in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  -R: Jeanne, Jeanne's prefrosh) Which in turn really makes me wish I'd visited ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived ... roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college.[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the newspaper or the watch the news as often as I should, but that's why I am glad

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the ... Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley ... , furthermore, I strongly believe that there is wasabi powder in my eye. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009