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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily ... two days i met some of my [annotation note="playing smash, and also

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of ... their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span between 1 ... since leaving school—but I love, love, love all these quirks and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  my school for the position of "Graphic Technician", fancy speak for a ... I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  grownup? I wondered if this was reminiscent of that time in middle school ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  bloggers are doing an amazing job of keeping the MIT Admissions page updated ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do ... couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth-crippling refreshes of https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php. If this sounds like you ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... ; Bane of my existence, and I know I’m not alone. For 8.01 – the intro

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston advice courtesy of Sara Ferry '11. It's time for some more Boston advice courtesy of Sara, and then some MIT advice courtesy of me. Sara Advice When

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of this entry was the last thing I heard Rick '09 yell as I skipped out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously ... kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  the entire show 30 minutes before the beginning of the game. In high school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to ... was also my first football game as a member of the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  every nerd club at my school, but I was still a stupid teen. Don’t be a ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022