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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the ... excerpt from my personal blog from the day I came to college: "so i enter

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... . Check out JKim’s blog for tips on what to do while waiting. Speaking from ... motivated and diligent for even reading these blogs to find out more about MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  when my family went to Ghana back in 2017. So visiting MIT last April for ... be submitted for a grade. Applying to MIT wasn’t even an expected ... on Instagram and it was really great to finally meet them in person

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... 2 points below class average, but still a potent motivator for me to ... "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non ... personality too strong, too much for their workplace. These past couple of ... loneliness. I looked around for someone, anyone, to help me. But help never

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  chemistry for the most part, is going to be brand new information for me ... Wednesday as well, I will be going to orientation for a job I got as a ... infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  -word mess to make sense with what I am now working on. For the first few ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Thursday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s where you’ve been able to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  worried for him, but he should be fine. i get to class fine, at exactly 10 ... to open up my laptop for a bit. i see a tour group forming and hear a ... motivated by my desire to not subsist on dining food on a daily basis."]buy

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  myself away to for the next four years. It feels slightly surreal that ... garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... that bag now, having carried it with me to so many places this past

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... ’m far from the first person to talk about Barbie, and its importance to ... interpretations and personal connection to the movie–how it perfectly encapsulates

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little ... listened to us talk about him with a mixture of appreciation for our concern ... . This tradition is definitely bound to stick around for a long time, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because ... that, I try to show for whatever sounds cool. And you know what sounds ... soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  Retreat = Having to film for my HASS class entirely on Sunday evening ... event that allows you- at absolutely no charge- to showcase your ability to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked ... I’d previously had for the subject. It was partly due to my disliking ... -immigrant visa for a temporary stay. Per federal regulations, if I want to work off

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  contribute to better outcomes for students in STEM — it contributes to better ... —  and only for the reason —  that it is "narrowly tailored...to further a ... setting for itself, and the strategies it plans to take to undertake them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022