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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni ... play 2 seasons of a varsity sport) and pass a swim test (remember ... learned from them and used them to confirm that I wasn't ready for graduate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  party one time. As someone who has played piano for many years, it was a ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the Harvard Bridge A few dorms (especially the cook-for-yourself ones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  for this site, though it was carried through by the team at MIT ... prize utility, practicality, serendipity, exploration, and fun. What you ... universities homepages and instead went for something that tries to be useful to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a ... piece! :D It was actually really fun and I'm glad I went. 2E represent ... paid me a surprise visit. We hung out, went to the MFA for a while and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... sets a precedent for letting them know that they can visit me. ask my friends for advice. they are smart people and often know what to do

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... interview prospective students for the first time this year.  I've been moving

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  working on my personal statement for a few weeks now and am now on draft 4 ... application essays I want to complete before I leave for my semester abroad.  I ... for my company's intern jamboree.  Basically it is a week meant for all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... fun. Midway through each presentation, we gave the girls a building task

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  halfway through the conversation that I asked for clarification on what ... York City in April for the photo shoot, I had no idea who the other girls were (well, except for Alia, who I heard about through the grapevine). We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  MIT, with a unique talent for both writing and astrophysics. Perhaps you ... (1995), Dance for Two (1996), or Reunion (2003). In 2002, he cofounded the ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... do you ensure you make the best choice? You think about it. You imagine ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable sample sentences). Maybe overwhelmed isn’t even the word I’m looking for here. Is there a word for being utterly thrilled, pleasantly surprised

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , Nicole and Anji for an amazing year. You guys are the best roommates I ever ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... is also a licensed professional wrestling manager and performs for ... an academic look at topics in popular culture. For example, this term

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  : The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... comfy little bed and move them like my biology intended for me to do. I ... start. Reality: The square dancing life is not for me :’o Before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... . In the dorms at MIT, we work adjacent to each other like parallel play

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  I win. So I apologize for having disappeared (somewhat) off the ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008