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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  happiness that I've been waiting to feel for a very long time." MIT is no ... do this for two reasons: One, I want to show you that, despite our ... a great place to be, it's lost its magic and wonder that I'd once held

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  find out that you there was even a full major at MIT in both writing and ... Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  RESOURCES (Note that this is a partial list of resources based on my ... ), which is open to everyone. If you're taking a class in Course 6 ... , you’re graded on P/NR, which means that, if you get a C- or above in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... , and immediately give up a score themselves. That's when I realized that ... period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  it. That's kind of weird. I guess being a blogger has made me so ... Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of ... seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... 326 the year before. What should I do now? I recommend spending the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  tell you a few that made me fall in love with the program, and with MIT ... everyone thought the robot that had once been a shoo-in for the win was ... me that - a second family I never saw coming. And if that’s what six

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  caught up in my work I missed (just some lab stuff and a PSET to do) and I ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... not a nugget!" Look, I understand that you're not a nugget, but have

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege ... have the opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  speech, and printed it. All Tuesday I kept that copy in my pocket and ... , and really needed to practice. So to do dry runs, I locked myself in the ... that day. At that meeting, Anjlai said she had a mini-break down: “I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  distraction. I became a "mature senior." It's just that last weekend, I slipped. I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• 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, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... together all of my rewards cards and coupons.  I joined a credit union that ... 's (a 24-hour convenience store in the Student Center). All the apps I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a ... apply. That being said, I have to bear the bad news that we're primarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  haven’t done in a year, but let’s not talk about that"]walking onto Putz ... Mystery Hunt, and that we have a culture in general, which fosters these ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  I've been really bad about updating lately. It's that point in term ... a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... in particular, but has a funny hat. Sarah '08 is a Japanese catgirl

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005