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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  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 ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  their goodbyes, she said something along the lines of: "at least we get a ... lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... best use of my time at MIT? Was I a failure? I was bringing myself down

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... people of relatively equal weight going down at the same time was not a ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  time though, we ended up on the MBTA theme (at the strong behest of one ... participants each). Incomplete list of fun behind-the-scenes moments: At least two instances of the participants trying to scare the zombies (at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In ... left at the end of the day. As delicious and high quality as what you ... of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do ... , because part of it feels "useless"? Which is a common dilemma at a strongly ... "]realize[/annotation] that I am not foaming at the mouth at the idea of having a job, that if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... . It’s a new class, so it’s kind of disorganized, but I’ve generally ... like, you know, processing things for at least a few of the 167 hours in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  of Cakes - Food Network (I think if I ever met Duff or anyone at Charm ... single episode of all of these shows (though you'd probably be surprised at ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new ... hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT ... MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  of course grew bored and angered at physics after a couple hours, so I ... after the 8.01 exam. Quizlet dropped a beta version of their new game, so ... .   FINALS WEEK Monday - 8.01 I woke up at the ass-crack of dawn (8

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  ="100345" /] Of course, we ended the day at Newbury Comics (because you know I can ... Jedi Old Republic. We chatted about the state of New Hampshire and the ... . One of my favorite high school memories was at the end of senior year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  ...and I think the New House desk workers were a little sick of the pile of ... a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what MIT policies would allow[/annotation] ). So of course, I realized I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really enjoy seeing changes over time and I think there's a lot of different ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  conclusions and new information at the end. Sometimes people put a powerful short sentence at the end of an essay or story to maximize its impact. Unfortunately this often backfires: a short sentence at the very end of an essay

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead ... "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  flake at the beginning of this post) There's a list of featured ... 's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  ______________________ and I will mail or fax them to you at that time." Some of you have ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012