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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3. 1 Congratulations, Early Action applicants! You perfected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... , I have friends going to India, Japan, China, France, and Spain. As

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  class 11.027, City to City, spent our week doing ground research for four ... encompasses a variety of different specializations, ranging from urban design to international development to environmental policy, and more. I joined course 11

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  tools we used first. We used band saws to cut some aluminum brackets. We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  , and then went back to La Placita. it was just as fun as it was the first ... college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which ... :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and ... are first generation citizens whose parents came to this country with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  Internet Meme  According to Know Your Meme, the first widely circulated ... aged, white women first found Minions to be funny and therefore forged ... ’s attention span is a game of first come, first serve. Trans women simply got to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  "yolo" and decided to attend MakeMIT, MIT's first ever hardware hackathon ... with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  proceeds go to charities which help women). Even after the first monologue ... Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... felt (enlightened) after the show. But I struggled to write anything that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  tells Northern Californians she goes to MIT, their first comment is always ... of room to stretch out and sleep after my first all-nighter of Fall ... Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling '07, Erica '07

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  went straight out the window when I went to my first office hour and ... myself first. To which they (essentially) said “Is it really hurting your ... about? To exist in the ways you need to exist?” And, for the first time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the ... To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019