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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  - it takes some people all of two seconds to call MIT their home. As for ... and for once this year, I hated saying bye to MIT. I was unusually ... ." Asking for help (or advice) is one bitter pill for an MIT student to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  big corporations that you hope to work for in the summer. Last year I went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling ... around my hometown for two days, he said to me, "I see now that the drama ... school." Hee. 2. Drew asked, If someone applies to MIT for grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  explained the "casing the joint" means "looking around for things to steal ... take too much time...but something to consider." I considered it for ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to ... an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  permanently working with for the semester, and it made me even more excited to ... select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any ... 's not too much a price to pay to stay stinky for the day, at everyone else ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless ... out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT ... exciting picture of what you're doing this summer! You don't have to be in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  free summer for the first time since high school, I knew things had to be ... groundwork for continuing to do it. A tip experienced artists always give is to ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... also planned for us and one of my favorites was our trip to the Boston ... -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... satisfied with, you can switch it to listener status, salvaging your GPA for ... broadsided with something close to a 30/100. For the second exam, which he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012