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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker ... spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done ... interested in the answers to some of them. That's okay - they're my questions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... four years have meant. The writer in me feels like there's so much to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  the skies in Malaysia. It was hard to see the Kuala Lumpur (KL) skyline, including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... Malaysia, it was off to Hong Kong. Here's me atop the Peak in Hong Kong, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face ... freaked out. Honestly, getting B in that class was just about as exciting

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  elaborate ruse to get me off campus. In a very "ahhh you got me!" wag of the ... .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... Calculus to the three space world we live in. Covering everything from

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , not IN the tour. I present to you a glimpse into what the average MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we ... of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them ... discoveries. They linked to two great articles, one from Wired Magazine and the

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006