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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don ... DID YOU KNOW? The MIT school fight song, "The Engineers' Drinking Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of ... an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  my old high school friend Alaina. Turns out she and three of my other friends from high school marching band decided to come up to the Boston area ... have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent ... graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  school. For a long time I had been very out of touch with other ethnic ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  of this after hanging out with the aforementioned high school friends ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  since my senior year of high school (Hi Ms. Graglia!), so it has been kind ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  be during the school year (gotta remind myself of that during finals ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  the perks of MIT being a fairly small school), and in most dorms it ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  from MIT or after additional schooling. There are many versions of what ... starting out your semester or school year or whatever and you keep telling ... likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  rare one that creates this amazing, out-of-this-world version of college life. So, here it is: a random Monday. Monday's aren't my busiest day of ... Fridays) Side note: I originally wanted to make this like a game of

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  cofounders of MakeSchool (his partner, Jeremy, is also on extended leave from ... things worth updating y'all about. So: a brief accounting/recounting of life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... school and childhood friends, and blissfully wandering around town without

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  didn't disappear until I talked about it with one of my high school ... about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions. Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  school admissions specialist -there was once this really funny episode of ... really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens)High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT '86, mechanical engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005