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• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  campus. ACF or Asian Christian Fellowship, how I ended up in that club as ... what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ? Improbable. Graduation came and went and in just three months I would be ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... learned how to always be thinking ahead to what I would need to complete my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... sleep). Even so, some things never change, like how terrible I am at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  ingrained habit. When I was in high school, I would write about how sleep ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  realities often, wondering if I hadn't gotten into MIT, if I would be in a ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different ... that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... abilities, and in the spring if you do not.  I took biology at the same time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  As I mentioned in[annotation note="which was uhhh a while ago oops ... some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about ... comfortable. I really enjoyed noticing how over time, some actions became more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”    I wrote this ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... formed.  Even for those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me ... while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports ... on many airlines and seen how air travel functions in several countries ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  Snively would call this the bloggers' freebie post. I would disagree ... figure out how any one man can have that much information in his head ... . I wish the Biology department would promote these classes more and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an ... meritocratic to its cultural core. In fact, I think if we tried to move towards

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  Blahaj have in common is that they all disrupt the norm of how sharks are ... + rights in its advertising. People prefer to buy from companies that align ... *puts on CMS hat* I LOVE watching media analysis video essays

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... through the time we mail regular action decisions in mid-March. Should I ... admissions to find out The Reason why I was deferred? If you call in, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... through the time we mail regular action decisions in mid-March. Should I ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005