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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... semester.  Or, in more relatable teenager-money-terms, that's the equivalent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... teacher letters and school forms (such as transcripts) in three ways, listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 're like me and live at Next House, you're really shooting yourself in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ="http://www.youtube.com/user/MITmarchingband">YouTube Channel</a>.</p> <p>This is, in fact, the 30th anniversary ... spelling mistakes like the one they mentioned in the article.</p> < ... player on the left in this photo:</p> <p><img src="http

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... , perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a last bid to say goodbye

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are ... entire place and express great excitement over the light in the bathroom

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... /inspirational/beautiful/touching posts about life, admissions, and everything. MITAdmissions.org is, in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  . In Python, whitespace matters. In Java, just be sure you have brackets ... Subject Tests."] freshman = ["Freshman fall - In my MAS.110 Fundamentals of ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  enzymes is called Ihtfpase, why are you still reading this? – Running in ... one freshman in the eye without freaking him or her out to begin a ... ! Person: Oh, alright, awesome. (Thirty minutes later, a freshman walks in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in ... more quick lunches in between classes, no more much-needed energy drinks ... beautiful sight in front of me: a crowd of students coming in and out of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... ;   Did you know that there was a great molasses flood in boston?? Absolutely nuts! It was somewhere in North End where [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  universities in metropolitan Boston that were listed on Wikipedia ... submit, if it's in NCBI's Taxonomy Database then the site will build a ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... ="I mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022