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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  people out to Rumney, New Hampshire.  We were all extremely excited for ... excited for the adventure, and drove up Sunday night to Rumney, New ... and he kept trying to get us to play road games and sings songs about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... the reasons I connected to her in the first place and discover new axes ... become the next Pokémon master. Now in my 30s, I get to share my love for

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... minutes cringing and rolling around in bed, looking like this: How did ... college groups (because no one on my team is in an acapella group). To help

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  watching out for me here in getting me this job. Although I really wanted to ... up, but also to explore new food places and get to know the city better ... teaches you how to be a good leader as well as a good team player. I don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... out how to do that in the awesomest way possible ... . If you do use your new teachers, I would give them a bit of time to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah, text me where" → Go to recitation → Start a new blog post Go on a voice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... struggled, not always successfully, to resist the pull of the former in favor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  possible to exactly predict how many students will attend this year. To help ... all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  managed to get lost in the dark.   Credit your innate sense ... consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... stops at 77 Massachusetts Avenue and goes to Harvard Square in one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... . And trying to do things in pursuit of "meaning" is probably bound to get ... , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square ... like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... in Chinatown, everything’s in traditional Chinese. Talks about how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  can do to help you get in contact with them. Don’t be afraid to ask for ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007