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• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... expanding my horizons and becoming at least somewhat skilled in the realm of C ... playing skills at all hours of the day). But I think I would have been ok

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  day. It was fun with the endless barrage of plant puns like these: At ... of your email. So at first, I thought the colors at the end of the ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  little too dark, especially in sun-deprived New England. The name of that ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of ... to look at all components of your application and try to holistically

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,485 students ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8 ... of strangers with music. I was totally mortified, at first, but as ... : namely, taking advantage of every resource at hand. In the meantime, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... server. the 1st meet was at the new balance track, which is a super fancy ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I ... at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories ... a major at the end of freshman year, continue to take classes outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... talk about basically anything relating to dorm life at MIT. I'm one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  minute lesson and the top 10 players with the most XP at the end of a given ... Duolingo for that given week. At first I was rationally apprehensive of ... , coincidentally at the bottom of Diamond League, and with a week between the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner ... "] whoosh dramatics[/caption] At the risk of sounding like an absolute nerd

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New ... feelings of guilt it induced, but god. every time I looked at Flora, I felt ... every couple of hours, or however often I looked at my mom's face. making

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... period comes around, I don't really write anything at all, leaving it to ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket ... legs The former meant bounding out of bed at the unacceptable hour of 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009