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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new ... beginning, given that you made it even here, is shimmering brightly. From ... ! I promise you, if you are amazing enough to want to go to MIT, you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but there are so many things that come to mind that I've been pressing ... that has rubbed off on me. I made a friend at Next House, and spent time

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  . Sometimes, we are very rigid in our ways. Consider how we pronounce class ... prefrosh and frosh who are already nervous about choosing a major. Plans ... K-pop dance and watch party recently. Someone even made colorful cake

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  was interviewing me sent me free room service including red and yellow ... away. Logical. Where I should have taken my test: Where I went to take ... to see my scores. Screen 1: Are you sure? Screen 2: Are you really sure

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Science: You may remember 5.111 as the class where I threw ping pong balls ... only one that offered free food.The 5.111 staff would periodically invite students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  (recently declared Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Hey Abby! Where are you ... ! (Maggie is currently studying abroad in Oxford.) Where are you right now ... : where are you right now? London! And what are you doing this summer, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  opera for FREE? With that said, if we are watching actors on stage telling ... One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group for undergrad and grad students who are passionate about or practice any

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room while a juggling convention was in progress, almost made chain mail, and ... are a potential applicant, you're probably looking for a taste of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... .  Rumor has it that the day that all the lights in the Green Building are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... -dimensional ship's anchor an older dude in biker swag who was helping two 10 year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  upperclassmen and say "I am prefrosh" and then get blasted with free food, swag ... .  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT ... Friday to find out who they were going to host and where they were from. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  logical framework, but outside of that, there are so many choices to be made ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... these bulky red wheeled robot creatures made of motors and lego blocks and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... graph whose nodes are all websites on the internet and where an edge ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  veterans. It all looked so natural and so easy, and he wondered where the ... attitude, seemingly free of burden and responsibility, held a longing appeal ... on Third East. In the lottery, you are assigned a room in which you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  huge changes coming to dining next year – there are plans to shift the ... those changes aren't what are making students unhappy. Instead, it's the ... included in the weekly meal plans. Because of this, students are worried

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make ... ideas that are not good ones. On the day of the Green Building Challenge ... 's something that particularly interests you (of course there is), chances are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are ... accidentally made this extra cup of coffee, and you order coffee a lot so I thought you might want it.” So I got a free cup of coffee. But the coffee

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  , where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... ship floated under one of the few patches of clear sky. A couple leaned ... below are from the Boston side of the river before a thunderstorm. Most of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  duration of this course? We are giving the opportunity to wear them for two weeks to see if you like it.” ... Oh my gosh.  ... free...Free personal ... extrapolations to the general MIT student body are exercises left up to the reader

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  be in prison. -- At 12:25pm, Madison ’17 called me. “Where are you ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly ... stared at signs reading “Ashmont”, “Braintree”, “Red Line”. Are they here

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013