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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... 't let people tell you what you can or can't do because of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... in the days to come members of the community will organize additional ... system. In the wake of the events at Virginia Tech, many have asked about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , all these expletives I can think of, and everyone's tired, the ... , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is rather boring. I've been feeling like I'm on the brink of something bigger ... my hands dirty. Thankfully, I have a few of those projects happening

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  can see the view I saw yesterday, no matter their level of mobility) and ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  worn beauty of the halls. Even between West or East Campus dorms, I can ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... Haus are in the midst of the academic buildings, only a few feet away

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  places, so take what they have to say with many grains of salt. I apologize ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in those environments, so I (again) apologize if any of you find the content

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and ... dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego Springs, CA. The beautiful photos are by Peter Vanderwarker. All of them can ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  (in the interest of full disclosure) you should know that we will be ... submitted for your housing choices (in order of preference), what you ... number is not 100% set in stone. I am not yet sure how many bloggers will

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  . Thus, I hardly spent any time in my room during the first couple of weeks ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week, so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013 ... last Monday for Team MR8 in memory of my friend Martin Richard, who was killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  number of emails I get addressing me in sentences as Chrism. My name doesn ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  methodology' in software development (mainly because I'm part of an agile scrum ... really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  . Unfortunately I can't find a clip of it, but if you search YouTube you'll find a ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... links in my posts about the dorm. So yeah, I'm working on it, guys. In

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  "hang out," as the kids say. I enjoy living in a place where we can have ... perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011