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• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... room, and then transported the toiletries and school supplies section of ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  the school I'd been dreaming of attending all along - who let me crash ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  "] Members of my a cappella group and my best friend from high school turning ... , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  did science fair out of personal joy rather than school mandates. The ... school, I was looking into improving the efficacy of existing antibiotics ... her life. So on the brinks of entering high school, she had a new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  below) you can apply for medical school. For example, an acquaintance of ... News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... from an admission's conference that had all of the most selective schools ... (The Deans of all the Ivy's and some other awesome schools you

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... being totally worth it. All the shadows of high school were dispersed by ... "]--[/annotation] I was sort of numb to my reality after being kicked out of school in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  . However, several schools offering early action will allow you to apply to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  creation of the product from start to finish. I'm doing other school stuff ... One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Alan: This was one of the Students puzzles, which were designed to be ... hundreds of MIT students but also thousands of dedicated puzzlers from all ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a ... celebrate the end of the first week of school, I went to Boston Calling on ... too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  -renowned Sloan School of Management. Yes, everybody has this conception of a ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... wanted. MIT asks for a lot in terms of high school classes and if you aren ... school of no special importance had both been accepted to MIT! My mind

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  . In middle school, I made maybe 8 “friends” initially, one of whom is ... worth it to have met that one person, Ruby W. ‘18 at Colorado School of ... For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  store offered wonderful designs. Something is so cute about spending a few ... usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023