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• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I ... useful since I’d never even travelled anywhere on the East Coast. If ... and I still got in. (Note: This isn’t me bragging about myself being t

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  (minus Bexley…), and participated in more events than I can keep ... simply "Rindge"), the only public high school in Cambridge, MA. I must ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off at 4am. I submitted my very last application at 2am, couldn't fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  do. There's a lot of angst in the UA about how we can get more people ... Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  realize how badly i need one, and cities like boston - where you can walk or ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... graduate? Am I prepared for the workload? How often is it typically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... . So what's been up with me? I passed my finals, and I can even tell all ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all. I've been to three or four parades now. I've taken a nap in a park and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  before I move away from the East Coast for a while. I saw two Broadway ... Becoming the Next Bill Nye (I wrote about it in more detail in a post last ... last semester of formal education ever – is sinking in. So I set some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  doesn't help that code-switching is so prevalent in tagalog, so i can half ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  use the restroom and I ended up falling asleep in the seat. I can ... is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... of the differences between us, in how I see the world and how she sees ... can watch as I awkwardly introduce the group and we cover a Weird Al

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical Engineering major, I learn how to work with others who may or may not share my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  formulation is that any statement in np can be proven). you can imagine how ... them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re ... correctly 100 times in a row then my friend can be pretty confident the balls

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  . (What can we say? Kresge gets around.) One of these emails I got in that ... I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you ... me a paper bag to breathe in, I take a look around and realize 1) that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009