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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... ), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So ... wanted to through that in there to prove that MIT students do in fact date ... that and I had to share. Tensor! Ha! Get it? Don't worry if you don't, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the ... personal decision - the answer to question #2 may help you to decide. 2) How

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  bathrooms in the meche department. cross-registrant themed 1. bus to Harvard ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... room Figuring out how to get my computer to print to our dorm’s printer ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... testing services to get us January scores in time (although often it works ... plenty of time to get your transcripts in prior to the March 15th transfer

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  later?). My roommate also just proposed that we figure out how to simulate ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  's application, no matter how strong, isn't enough to get one accepted. We deferred ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... was ranting to me about how stressed the workload was making him, and so

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  general or how to get one? (Thanks to Anjana for help with the title. I ... million to the alliance. It was really cool to see our research getting ... here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... , “typical” doesn’t describe anyone here, and in GEL I’m going to learn how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... how college has led me to not pressure myself to stay in one lane or ... , the upcoming experience I hope to get in the spring semester will be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... me in my dorm room, trying my best to stop being sick. I couldn't even

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022