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• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... this! Either you get the decision sooner, or you get extended time to ... things you do and how you’ve developed yourself in your mental, emotional

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get ... Harvard in September. (Like any good MIT student, I still get a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  in the world wouldn't do you any good, if you didn't know how to look ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the ... anticipated "Jesus: The Ride" to much fanfare: If you're interested in ... 've got the makings of a good bunch. It's kind of interesting to get a sense

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... didn’t straight up bomb it and get that painful “fail-mail” in my inbox

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... -trained architect and long-time interviewer in Manhattan. Larry also has ties to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... meals. And the laundry you don’t have to do. You’re worried how the future

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  how to code in three weeks. The lab assistants, TAs, and lecturers were ... , which never gets quite dark enough in the winter time. The snow reflects ... FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  take in my fall semester and how to get around issues I was having with ... good forum to interact with upperclassmen and get to learn how to MIT ... learning how to pronounce things the American way so as to get people to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... malusog, "healthy", particularly in contrast to being buto't balat, "skin ... to grow fat is a privilege afforded to people who had food in the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... down to our turkey dinner. Um, hello? How about we skip the hosing and go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... and pick up random stuff. Somehow that led her to a degree in Course XVI

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students ... Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  , Judy, Kevin, and I met up in Next House to get waffles. Kevin went a ... around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... prefrosh she met to dinner in Cambridge. We headed over to the Student Center

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR ... . To me, it radiated colors and inspiring energy of so many kinds, in so ... all up until I got to paint a mural and join Borderline’s exec board in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  , people are really hardcore and get up at all hours to wait in line for ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022