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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... consider any new scores. Can I call admissions to find out why I was ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  I left with a very tangled relationship to achievement and success, a ... I expected college to be more of the same, just at a more complex ... fact, in my freshman year, I often struggled to find the motivation to do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should ... have demonstrated, there are a lot of awesome UROP experiences to be had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to ... ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a ... to appreciate the good things, like a letter from home, fried eggs and toast, or powdery snow on a sunny day. When everything sucks, try to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this ... I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal ... than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... . Not that I didn’t enjoy it - high school was the place where I a ... . Boston is a shower of sparkles that perpetually feels as if it ought to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... worth of rare and pirated software? Not easy to part with. A chainsaw

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top ... expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... -intuitive results. To illustrate this, imagine that you are the CEO of a prominent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... the ground. I was going to write a blog about this, but then I took seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year ... Shortly after Kidist's post, we were both added to a massive Messenger group ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... well as a box I don't care enough to unpack yet.   The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a ... friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded ... Meet the Bloggers, a glorious event for which we are required to wear t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021