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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  5-8 for dinner. If you eat lunch at noon or 1, you're going to get hungry again before 7. You want to eat something before practice to get ... . Speaking of food, I have to go get ready for the Conner 2 frosh dinner, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented ... leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be accepted into her program (and you thought MIT was hard to get into). I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  go through these cycles. Don't get me wrong; I am glad that I go to MIT ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  and hallways, so you can get from the T stop in Kendall Square to 77 ... Lechmere Green Line T stop. You just get off the T and walk a mile next to ... -fun part. You should have seen Adam and me try to get back to our apartment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  hang out/catch up 9:45 pm – ran home to get laptop and headed to campus ...   One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  , so please give us a few days to get back on our feet before we restore ... wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT ... when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  , we have managed to get this labor of love live! I hope, in this time ... them on Github. In the meantime, I'm going to get back to reading ... thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members ... 'm pretty sure that you're a bit more likely to get a bid if you appear on one ... have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten ... semester. Juniors and seniors also get to take two classes on pass ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I

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

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... cure cancer. 3)Stick to it. By far the hardest part. It's easy to get ... some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking ... I’ll procrastinate on doing work if it means getting to spend a couple ... touch with my friends, or about getting to do puzzles and play board games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

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

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

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were ... college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats ... for having the chance to get to know all these weird (in the best ... For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• 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 ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... magazines to look at the pictures... 3. Don't get scurvy! It's not a good idea ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed ... otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013