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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Freshman Year was another chapter in my book that I can re-read whenever I ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... Verde's runs, all the different restaurants and places I've been to in Boston. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  service programs, and I can't wait to continue to do all of these cool ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the ... , it’s really satisfying noticing that I can lift more weight now than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  soon as I stepped in the room where she would be put down, I felt an ... . however, in the past few weeks, I've been confronted with more and more ... sleep. I met my host grandfather in my freshman year of high school, when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  -of educational center in his [Tavares's] homeland." I had the great pleasure of ... same refractive index as glass. Even in person, you can only see hints of ... " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  recommendations in the Pop collection, and we've got 13,000 CDs, so I can't be ... this so I can talk about the MATCH school. It's one of the many Community ... do this - I teach rising sophomores in writing. Let me tell you, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up until today, I've procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out ... . If you are in the regular action pool (regular action applicant or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  ) and in the lab, where she was an Intel finalist for her work on flame ... A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received ... into fistfights in Matt's office.  Yet decide we must, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  prospect. “Uuuuuuuuggghhhh!” I grunt out in frustration – I think of the ... homework I could have finished in that hour, but I quickly realize how much ... excuse for me to revel in the fact that I miss my little brother a ton

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  competition, and went on to compete in Miss America. You can read all about ... (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... you what dorm to live in (could be forked from this which I'm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do ... -important survival stroke. In the past, I’ve taken: -Boot-camp/Conditioning: Taught by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  stressed out.   ivy Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my ... counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and ... God, the snow. There hasn’t been any snow in North Carolina since I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008