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• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to another human being, and sometimes I am in a single-occupancy bathroom with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... future. 2. when sapphics say love is in the air when i am with you,  we ... away, where  to come out is to stay in  your arms   i want my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... people understand each other." Sometimes I think the best ideas in the ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!”  “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in MacGregor because I hear you’re basically guaranteed a single. I’m in the A entry, how about you?”  You reply that you’re in the C entry. Huh

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... Castle in the Air, and the ever-shifting cloud castle.) The one plane I ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I ... When I woke up this morning, I checked my Facebook (as any good ... around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  . “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... am in bed. In just a few hours, fiziks will be done, And I will have ... , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or ... potato farmer in Idaho. I digress. Here's my schedule for the week, which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  are you?" and she checked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" but I don ... three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... fellow, I decided to open it up and look in side as per deskworker rules

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the ... are so many classes I've taken in my life where I'm just like - okay, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  hometown, and yelled and jumped up and down. I never told my mom how I lost ... freshman and try it. If I'm in Boston next summer, does anyone want to ... as each semester we shuffle rooms in the house. I'll move the rest of

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a ... ; *I’m totally not anymore. Sitting in Simmons. Peace out home fries!

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012