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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  looking for missing documents until we post a blog entry saying that we have ... . The same goes for materials submitted by your teachers, counselor, and ... at a school with official letterhead, don't worry; they can just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... I’ve given tours for cathedrals and such. England is a lovely place ... groceries. Curious, he stood and peered at me for a few moments. I nodded and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... undergrad institution, I had worked with students for two years a college

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... relaxed and talked for a few hours before my eyelids started drooping and I ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, it's been announced with more and more fanfare every year. This ... as "backup", and we just went for it. Then everyone started ... transformed into something completely different from Pie Hard With A Vengeance

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For ... - Play DDR in the game room - with Nicole '10 and Yoni '10 last night after

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  watch TV but I'm obsessed with Alias so I make time for it - haven ... except (a) the parents are real (and well-acted) characters and therefore ... OLD - spent my birthday reading apps 3) My app reads have been

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  was great, students were tossing a frisbee, and music was blasting in ... opened with a stomp. At first, I think all the prefrosh were stunned ... Lai '09 and suite mates were really awesome. They were members of a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at ... "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... -inventor-engineer who became a voice for the disenfranchised and an advocate for social

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... is important and what you would like for a reader to know. Student: Oh ... determine if you are a good fit for the community? Student: I don't know

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  Random, and the only floor with monkey bars. From the floor description ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... a ghost, two fridges have been nommed, and the exit sign is breeding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm ... techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force ... I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on Web

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  . After all, boba is just a drink, and drinks are made with certain ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical ... with five classes and a few other extracurricular commitments, I am on ... class I've ever taken, and yet I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  — my SO and i sang this a lot whenever he played guitar. it's just so ... Ko/Weathering With You, the movie this is from, but this song slaps and ... song with a chaotic night in which one of my closest friends on my floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  students chooses one project and follow it through over the course of a ... Plastic Bags into Rope and Netting -- The world uses a trillion plastic bags ... created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  and is common in Bolivia. Mocochinchi. A man with a beautifully ... train, read some Neil Gaiman, and got off in Killarney. I fumbled for a map for a bit, realized my phone was at 33%, and well, you know the rest

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  . However, I was served a #4 Big Bacon Classic combo with mayonnaise and ... poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a ... of it? Anyway, my dormmates and I had a passionate discussion about it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005