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• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  incredibly hard to get where you are. You've stayed up late for projects ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I ... place for me and all that stuff, but I had made the first step. Part of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , fine, I'll explain. Once a year, And that's where I stopped my draft, mid ... arcane things in spreadsheets, and not sleeping very much. There are other ... made me realize I really needed to move back: if I could miss New England

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  , Class of 2015. No matter where you go, you are all awesome. It's been a ... As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to ... are much more straightforward. Cost. Prestige. Distance. These are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  . It was also here that I had my yearly crisis where I somehow find ... image1="107290" image2="107223" /] It was after this that we made our way ... bunch of free food and ambiance. So one cold and lonely night, I walked my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  and seeing places where memories from my blissful freshman year linger ... having a dozen of my friends hype me up from the front rows made me perform ... , my free time is spent unwinding, playing guitar, and, uh, vibing. When

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  one else. Not your parents, not your friends, yours. Go where you think ... . " ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt "If you have made mistakes, there is always another ... , feel free to shoot me an email. I wish you all the best. Wake up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... got to campus and everything was great. I made new friends, freaked out over 8.01 exams, got free food, stalked fellow studentson the internet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  --another day's worth of free food to add to my calendar next year! Anyway, Greg ... throwing its entire contents into a small purple duffel bag. I made it ... where Joe and I first discovered the X-Knot, so we had to settle for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  ensues After landing in Italy, we took a bus ride down to Sermoneta, where ... wonderful little town. One day during our free time, I took all the side roads ... . No matter where I went, taking a flight of cobblestone stairs down lead

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  [annotation note="Cruft are alumni, cruft houses are apartments where a bunch of ... loving myself, at loving other people; where I made friendships I know will ... graduation where all the seniors stay on campus and do fun events"]senior week

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster ... free time. I find it very satisfying to reorganize my storage systems so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  - and for that I apologize. MIT can give you a lot of things, but free ... 's not because I don't have the free time to drink my milk. It's because I ... 've been thinking about what I wanted to add to it. College applications are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... it hard to believe that girls are that much more qualified than guys ... . Anyone know where to find info on that?) At the same time, no matter how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  you understand. Every day there are reminders that you are not from ... length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  Two groups are hosting pi celebrations: This **Tuesday, 3/14, at 6pm in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be ... recitation contest Pie eating contest Free pie for everyone! And don't forget

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  least Wednesday or Thursday, after my finals are done. I have been tooling ... , feel free to leave me comments and questions to answer here. I will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

   exciting things our current students are up to! We'll also send you important news and ... the Bulletin, is available free online and provides a comprehensive
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  semester, where all too often, fun longer than half an hour has to be either ... accurate flowers and plant parts made out of glass, created over the course ... together. The majority of them genuinely look exactly as though they are real

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  recitations in Building 4, and the classrooms are definitely not laid out ... example, 2003's "The Recruit," where Colin Farrell's CIA trainee character ... .09, are pretty big deals on campus, and have significant corporate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I love MIT, there are way too many people trying to one up each other with ... more transparency here. Know that your friends are struggling too and it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015