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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  working on my personal statement for a few weeks now and am now on draft 4 ... to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste ... (thanks Craigslist!) and people to live with, but the fact that it was all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  , which I think is a bit more clever and less Fox News-y. For the history of ... bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  for the last three years running >____>). And this feeling has ... works for me - I successfully merged into a band of '14s at a party and ... , trial and error, and time for your experimental animals to grow) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... weekday for crew practice, and I've been getting to bed by 9:30 or 10 every ... understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  and/or answer an email! For starters, MacGregor is divided up into 9 ... in the lowrise between F and G), and it’s basically one huge meet and ... Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  concentrations, which are Pre-medicine and Biomedical Engineering. For the first ... from home and kept getting the ominous Blue Screen of Death. For two days ... ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ‘12 and I were the only prefrosh to go on the tour of the dorm. It ... and Bears Oh My! Actor 1: yep, we used to call you LTBOM for short ... with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up ... this balance between work and relaxation that will make you love MIT and ... between five to eight hours on every problem set or paper, and a little more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  're usually between $20-40 and just consist of nicely bound notes or your ... to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and ... hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  the career fair began for me (and everyone else I know who isn't course ... handful of companies looking for marketers (and a local, book-based tech ... . And I will never have to buy another pen or T-shirt for the rest of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  to, watched, and played for my classes so you can see the interesting ... . Essentially the steps were: Know how much sleep and time you need (for me ... into lifting!! since i took a two month break for traveling and was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  accurately, a "roadable aircraft"). And they're taking orders for it now ... nation nestled between India and China in the Himalayas. After taking tens ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  for their last exams, and suddenly my room was packed and i was on a ... , waving hello and chatting about whatever between commitments. sometime a ... . thanks for your patience and your love. thanks for all the things you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put ... to MC, so I had to emergency cover for that."][/annotation] And yet ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  of 7:30 and 8:30 am. Thankfully, there's an incentive for my atypical ... - and on days where I'm simply there for other business or for friends - I ... (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  ever since BosMUN. That joint effort forged between Boston University and ... country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... ; Mexican, Mediterranean, Thai, Indian, and Italian food (for that last one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  on it and reveal they’ve given my work their attention for a few ... and other people. That’s what making art is for me: not a statement of ... and ran the sound board for Into the Woods that spring. Running sound

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around the world, students, parents, every day workers, and more gathered around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... , and I've already had about three outfit changes. Not only was today MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013