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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  and sent them to Matt McGann. You know, the usual: a cappella concerts ... , going to a formal, and then maybe some stuff about playing in the snow. I ... continued to blog and had a few other entries by another student, I believe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... said NO to MIT: First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to ... you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  need to have the time to find your people. MIT is such a [annotation note ... undergrad experiences. It’s a weekend that’s supposed to help you choose ... to MIT for years. If I had known a few things before going into CPW

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  , happy to find a physical way to freak out. End overture. Lights up: cue ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... to sing a lot?" Boyfriend: "Not really...but she has a really big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... was just so happy to be 'home.' On a side note: Eventually this resolves ... have two.) At a certain point it seems weirder to walk into your family

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  looking for a copy of that, because I wanted to find comfort and familiarity ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  a tough time finding the place where we were supposed to park, mostly ... way to the cabin to grab some food. There was a beautiful view on the ... galaxy. When we got to the GPS coordinates, we were all a bit confused and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  What To Bring To MIT Next Fall? If you're planning on having a bike, make sure to bring a good bike lock. Maybe four. I don't actually know if it's been stolen - I have a tendency to...forget where I leave things. Like my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  a major at the end of freshman year, continue to take classes outside ... a morning exam does. Despite what my 9.01 Intro to Neuroscience ... body will get used to napping every day, and that’s a nuisance. Get off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it ... short story, I discovered a teen writing community where poetry reigned

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... sense of concern. I would like to reflect on the situation we find ... the moment demands of us The Executive Order on Friday appeared to me a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... , if only life were always this easy. a love letter to polyhedral ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I ... go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  President Martin Tang GM '72 pledges to donate a generous sum of up to $25 ... sorts of "international food" since our class gift is going to establish a ... campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  but finding myself extremely distracted. This all came to a head ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment"]a ... to other bloggers']a run[/annotation]on Election Day, which was when

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021