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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This ... , don't be surprised if the 2nd question is "How am I supposed to get to ... to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... opportunity to get to know fellow GEL students as well! GEL Year Two ... ! After getting to know our mentors the day before, the GEL students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at ... even smaller computers, but eventually you get down to small roads that ... definitely cool ideas from my classes that have stuck with me. I also got to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... 's various dormitories. (I didn't get a chance to photograph East ... environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  loved getting to visit me here.) MIT offers information sessions followed ... Reception Center (Room 10-100) to get a campus map, the brochure "The ... also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  "bridge loops" covering a wide range of mileage, so it's not too hard to get ... goal is to never skip a song. Alright, I better get some sleep now ... , but not before getting the turkey reactor up and running. I also have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the ... Caltech to meet me (which blew my mind) and a few didn't get back to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  meetings where I get to find out what the rest of the team is up to. Most of ... study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to ... aren't always a measure of effort, but if you happen to get an A, a B, or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to ... few months" to "get the ball rolling" on the venture, just three years ... nation's economy (by ensuring that people actually get up and go to work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  you have to get some initial equipment/tools and potentially travel far ... tragedy. I need to go to an airport, catch a flight, and get from the ... route to getting fired, and for good reason. Unless I was actually sick or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... Opportunities program. We had managed to get some smaller amounts of funding from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  India, and getting lunch with a friend in Tokyo along the way. I got to ... clear to me as of late is that I’m pretty used to getting what I want in ... aftermath. I did, however, get into the other school I applied to: the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT ... able to meow or [annotation note="pet snakes

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

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  Please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please    Regina: "Get in loser, we're going shopping." *Drives to career fair*👕   Push through ... 😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• 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 ... 've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having ... entries to come involving my research and other jobs, but until then here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010