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• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  probably an appropriate time to address the issues that Cam brought up in his post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... with my calendar and plug everything in, to figure out where decisions

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... lists on MIT's end has to happen) you'll start getting your MIT e-mail in ... MIT address) to spam filters. In short, people stopped getting e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... without me in it. I don’t want to get left behind because everyone else has ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for ... to put you in a new environment. Changes are destined to happen whether

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... coolness - not all of which I completely understand - to render images in ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... workaholic has to get up at 6 AM to be in lab by 7 tomorrow morning! ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... meaning, so you are NOT ALONE in your endeavors to write great things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ordinary people who were either lucky enough to get in. Oh wait... to which ... Mechanical Engineering and only open to students in that major (likewise with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009