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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  ...have a lot of blogposts in progress but I can't really say anything because ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to ... my UROP, I'm currently in charge of researching effects of previous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... 'll be participating in Orientation. Sunday, I had the opportunity to dim sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  ,[/annotation] Mcpherson, KS, Dodge City, KS, [annotation note="Nimby, I don't think we're in ... , when I’m sitting in the solar car, I can’t see behind me. There is no ... , perched in the backseat with an array of laptops and their MIT-sponsored i

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  that is since I can't think of any single majors in math that I know. A final treat: I bring you this video of my boyfriend dancing (openable in ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

    Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... you can spent 40 hours per week in the lab instead of the 5-12 hours ... different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them ... done that.) I did a photographic tour of my suite back in August, which ... here in Macgregor I've always had good shower experiences -- plenty of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... in MacGregor, and I can see "GO C's" projected on the Prudential Tower

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... noisier and quieter than the city. Here, the sounds of birds and insects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  , here's what I can tell you. We're not going to reject you because of the ... ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  city from the ground up And replace it with my own In my sleep I dream of ... I can now read blog posts from OpenAI and understand at least some of ... remaining places of human habitation. Like every other floor in the city, its

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking ... of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  are a lot of things you can do with them in terms of design ... . Which meant that I spent the busiest week of my year living in a half ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009