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• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so ... I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking ... thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good ... meaning to get around to. Here's one to try if you have a DSLR. If you don ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just ... to exam, deadline to deadline. It was nice to get a change of scenery ... get some downtime to fully reflect on the halfway mark of my undergrad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  mode they are traveling by, and what route they are taking to get there ... enables cities to function and people to get from point A to point B. Even ... forward to continuing to explore the field, and to get to know my adopted

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  going to rappel from the skylight to take me out? Was I going to get ... Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... looked at him. "I'll hug her and you don't even need to pay me!" I walked

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel ... have any other blogs they like to read? I'm always looking for more ways to punt*. Only eight more days until Mystery Hunt! I know there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  undergraduate, even though that had always been my major. I had hoped to get here ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again ... major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  minutes to get a snack, or walk around. I come back, and read what I wrote ... and my friends to not say anything about it if I don't get in? That ... although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... summer job- as a lifeguard at Runaway Rapids Waterpark. I get paid to get a ... sunburn of the I-wonder-how-I-managed-to-NOT-get-skin-cancer variety. Well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  day. If you try to comment, and your comment gets blocked...try removing ... come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... tricks to getting yourself around the world on MIT's dime. Start: 0 mi ... get work experience, AND you get to travel at the same time. If you ever

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... ), but I personally accepted it because I want to get 18.03 (Differential ... ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018