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• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can ... information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... .."]Radiohead,[/annotation] no in between. you're the type of person who tends to isolate yourself

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... 't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... advising options for freshmen, and it's very easy to get overwhelmed among ... disclaimer to future harried applicants: MIT Admissions uses Facebook in no way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  person to get their picture in before Valentine's Day officially ends. A ... , bad joke.) who may or may not like piña coladas and getting caught in ... . Solid choice. Alright, guys, unless you get me a picture in the next 34

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of ... was cool in the first place, to sit and listen to Professor Sheng talk

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... proceeded to crash, because seriously, who wakes up before 10? In any case ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... colleges to reach out to students in larger numbers, in some cases bordering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... focus and let nothing get in my way. tick I feel like despite operating at ... break me. … I love the challenge. In high school, I often had to push

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  occasion to get paid just to sit back and have fun, so I definitely seized the opportunity. I had to leave early to get to campus to film the ... 'll be participating in Orientation. Sunday, I had the opportunity to dim

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005