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• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... , my phone died and my alarm did not go off. Regain consciousness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... set of questions they see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as ... they intend to approach analytically and solve with solid evidence and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  Esplanade and leaving The Institute behind at the end of the day for a few ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... Campus dorm during my freshman and sophomore years, but when some friends were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... Pyrenees, right between Spain and France! Wait, you still don't see it? It ... Massana, Encamp, Escaldes, Andorra la Vella, and Sant Julià. Fun fact: if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have ... (and no, I'm not going to tell you if I've done each one), but I think ... . Participate in a political demonstation at the State Capitol 17. Subscribe to a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list ... projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year ago quite a bit. it's inevitable; each day, SnapChat memories pop up and ... days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider

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

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  . Don’t forget to provide your name and MIT ID, stating clearly that ... About the Early Action Deadline and Application Components   ... trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.) Your school/teachers may submit

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG ... concerning jellyfish, nodules, and hermaphroditic cats, but also because I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  dorms represented, along with a few fraternity brothers and sorority sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... not, and (if necessary) when would be a good time to call back. Most of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  , there's the East Campus housemaster slection committee. And keeping up with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten-day game. And then there was Mystery Hunt, where I hunted with Project

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say "now *that's* what MIT's all about." And the energy that the students ... public transportation system, and the fact that more than a city, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and ... , I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and ... star plate. It was all resolved and put back together, at least all the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... its requisite promises and challenges; in his past lies a strong, resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found myself, along with 15 groggy teammates and five coaches, at Logan ... Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  and humanities magazine. Editor-in-Chief Michelle X. '20 presented the ... weeks and dozens of writers, artists, and designers to put together ... , recruit volunteers, and raise money. At our fundraiser, we'll be selling

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions have died down, but I have some last-minute thoughts and advice ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  about Bloggers, Boston, and the Great Beyond.  claim: mit students grind all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  -educated engineering or business experts with advanced degrees and significant research ... hackathons like MakeMIT and programming competitions like Battlecode. Or they trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016