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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  prospect. “Uuuuuuuuggghhhh!” I grunt out in frustration – I think of the ... homework I could have finished in that hour, but I quickly realize how much ... excuse for me to revel in the fact that I miss my little brother a ton

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  competition, and went on to compete in Miss America. You can read all about ... (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a ... -cold gaze. This supervisor comes in many shapes and sizes. They can be intense in that they expect a lot of you or they can be really into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  probably can't get at another school or at a school in Taiwan?" Jennifer: "I ... MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... lot of pressure at MIT. I heard that if you get Cs for two semesters in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for ... destination. In the 36 hours we spent there, I think we got to see about one ... just big screens in it so even more people could watch, but I don't know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my ... hours in rain or shine (or the occasional snowstorm), but I wouldn’t have ... of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do ... -important survival stroke. In the past, I’ve taken: -Boot-camp/Conditioning: Taught by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  stressed out.   ivy Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my ... counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... many ways, I was incredibly fortunate in the timing of my illness. I got

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... and operating conditions, a building designer can simulate in realtime ... After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... Economics, and #9 in Political Science—these are numbers you can show off to ... what I’d do without math. Now I’m a double major in Political Science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and ... God, the snow. There hasn’t been any snow in North Carolina since I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits ... . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... Montreal by bus or train. I'll leave you with a few pictures... (you can see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME

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

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  : … cj: this is my blog post. i'm the interviewer. i'm the one in charge ... . alan: and i'm alan. i'm cj's anxiety. cj: glad to have everyone in the ... to you all the time. that the reason i was in your life was because of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... whenever it can be fit in, so the spring and fall classes are equally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in ... ? Pojectiles in 6-120? Mr. Facilities man, I have no idea what you're talking

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011