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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  in Computing -- which is basically an 8,000-attendee-and ... amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male-dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  MIT, glue then back together, and show you this amazing institution from ... , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... , departments, administration, and admissions office have worked tirelessly on

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... machines (or myself)! The course taught me that and more. The first couple classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  university, at least with my qualifications. And yet they kept going. And kept ... offer me the pats of condolences and, instead, I'll be pierced by their ... nothing I can offer them. And they will tell me no, no Cami you're plenty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California ... Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the ... , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  , classes, and program offerings. I actually learned about MIT's Washington DC ... my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other assorted pictures—midnight karaoke, bleached hair, and lots, lots, lots of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  that didn't flatter my face and blunt bangs I cut myself. It was spring break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  material changes every time it's offered and i can retake it for credit. this ... post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement ... ; (6) able to finish the graduate degree in a timely fashion; and (7) a ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  psychology grew out of a call for universal education, and that it reciprocally ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... three days. And, if you're sly (or legitimately busy, but nobody can tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of ... our dorms and watched my roommate smash random electronics on the ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a ... to be honest, it was because I live around the corner and had been ... the space. As we walked through the spaces—public, backstage, and

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much ... reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... of my gap working to remotely build up funds and gain work experience

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... Had my parked car crashed into Moved from Hawaii (and had movers break ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... processed most December testing by now), and, if applicable, Interview Report ... system. If you had an interview more than two weeks ago and we haven't yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  entrepreneurship program. We saw the Empire State Building and visited interesting ... Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming ... ; MIT can be overwhelming will all the advice you hear left and right. But ... personal growth, and a big part of that is understanding your limits. Find

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017