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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals ... January that I can work on during IAP: 1. Simplify and keep track of my ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is ... calls. Many of us who read applications are taking a little break and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or ... . There’s still plenty of time to learn. It only feels like it

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing ... were admitted or not by the size of the envelope...the bigger the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  http://my.mit.edu. To announce this, Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill has ... Report now. The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is required of ... Report as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester or second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for ... Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  naturally my whole life. Instead of walking, I was dragging, hopping, or ... the boot was off, it was months of physical therapy. Putting weight on the foot was a scary and mighty endeavor. The thought of running seemed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency ... some governmental history of a foreign country and put my own name down

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  , regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... questions, but the conversation is good anyway. towards the end of the chat, K

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  years, dozens of students representing MIT's nine acapella groups will ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... little corner of my heart was still disappointed. Maybe I just wasn't good

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a ... part of why I chose my company this summer was because it paid the highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... aches. My legs were so sore that I didn't get out of bed for the rest of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind of a pain, but...what can you do? Thankfully, [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice with my team, [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020