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• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  'm counting on you, Snively. And all you other commenters. It's just that ... that I'm biased. So I went there and I saw all the names on the list, and ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  the final touches on a fairly large departmental project (job #2), and ... waking up earlier than twenty minutes before class, and it feels pretty ... . You see, I'm probably one of the least academically swamped students on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on ... can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... our plight. Sam: "Yeah, I really need to do get some money on my laundry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It ... sushi restaurant for 15 minutes before Gloria talked to some people ... 't go on sale until tomorrow. How disappointing. Then we got lost in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  that he intimidated the professors on his thesis committee by showing up ... his energy-efficient house in Hingham (about a 25 minute drive, but grad ... of "golden" icing we slathered on top after dumping the entire box of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... 's picture on the cover? I conceived that as a rhetorical question, but ... Street Market talking on a cell phone on my last day in Harrisburg. Maybe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  90-minute seminars, 1-2 small-group discussion sessions, 3 meals, 2 ... (the out-of-towners are exploring Boston) so I'm taking a minute to say

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... completely on a whim Sophomore Fall. I’d always enjoyed skiing growing up ... on the team! I had no idea what to expect. I’d already paid team dues

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin ... decision to spend twenty minutes clunking out cringeworthy disjointed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say ... in my – err, my dad’s – day... Right. Moving on. Back in January ... looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  more serious about college, I tried searching for answers on my own. My impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media ... ’t quite supplement the feeling of actually being on campus.  That being

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  out each other's names on sight and placing air kisses on each other ... had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... probably would've spent five minutes there and then made up some excuse ("I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions ... that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  radio and sound trucks, and going into the camps and putting on plays on ... promotional material, a lot of which we had seen as posters on/above the streets ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  20 points on the SAT, I will guarantee you that there is something ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... they had gotten one more question right on the SAT that could have proven

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on ... beeps every 15 minutes once it is done running, to remind us that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  added bonus. If you want to try your own exercise in computationally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... things, but I was only met with radio silence. At that time, I was on ... particular, one of the strongest memories was overlooking the view on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020