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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... that was totally unexpected. Throughout high school, I hadn't put much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  . The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the ... includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... . (Okay, not really, but I feel like a childhood with his name had to have ... . * The image of a benzene ring. * "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my ... , and I immediately grabbed my laptop and saw that I had a new Google ... here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of ... as though I have consumed some local areas. That is incorrect. It ... don't sleep, and perhaps that Chris M. is pretty smooth with the ladies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  the way I feel about my major. I love my major in a way that is less ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... . Each suite in MacGregor is equipped with a small kitchenette that cannot

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... fear that you're really a cylon, all hope is lost. -If reading science ... how you aren't allowed to do that. -Leave a comment on the blogs that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn ... me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when you're stuck in your bubble at home or at MIT. I hope everyone is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... give me a course that he's excited about, but I picked 6.041 because it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  race that's 10 miles or longer in length. In a fit of madness I ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I ... minutes, which is what I used for my proof of time for Disney. Next was a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  " confuses me. Why is that I believe I am doing less work, when I am doing more ... in them—and I feel like I am learning a lot. Yet, this is not at all a ... ridiculous yet beautiful noise, I am at home. In a sense, this is what has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly ... want to do! I know that in my particular field (astronomy) there are a ... chances, but I'm confident that I'm a good applicant in other respects and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  place that I love. Make sure that you remember that all you can do is know ... . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fall i was in an engineering class that pushed my brain in satisfying ways that validated my place here. this spring, i am in an engineering ... ’m doing all that i can, but maybe not the right things. i wish i could just

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  of that, thank you. I'm 2A-CIR. Now, what in the hell does that mean? First of all, it means that I chose 2A, the "flexible" version of ... answers that the thing you do for the pleasure of it is learn a lot, and it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... way that I solve problems like that is by breaking it down into a series of simpler problems. But before I do that, I'd like to give a quick

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT ... here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  not that harmful but i’d say is definitely somewhat of a problem ... successfully do something about it there are a lot of things about myself that i ... externally or in my tastes, but at the same time i do think i’ve changed a lot

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023