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• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 'd ever wanted to go, I'd gotten to in at worst an hour; most of the time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... . Were security guards going to run in from all around me? Were agents going to rappel from the skylight to take me out? Was I going to get

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

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  ; etc. In short, this is for you to get a sense of some seniors ... Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And ... 'll profile a senior each day, each an amazing person in their own right. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  barista, en route to my desk. 9:20am, Nice Window Desk (no cubicles in ... pass, in order for you to begin to submit your version. At school, if my ... go look it up in the codebase to double check that it’s really there

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the ... . But! Remember, remember the Rule of November. Try not to get entangled

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked ... I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  : Barry To: Bryan "that's great that students are interested in it! we are actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... . 1. Live and breathe PNR. Don't stay up until 3 in the morning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but ... graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  . You don’t necessarily have to be getting straight As in all of your ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it ... trades (i.e. don’t need to be in super early, don’t need to be on our toes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... few days in the end of August where prefrosh get to explore living ... room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  ="48932" /] Postcards and snail mail. It feels nice to get a postcard in the mail, so I ... to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... down I want to do big things, need to get better, am getting better Must ... to get worse Time to continue my book on tape Gas, break, gas, break

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems ... -frosh get their I3 (Interactive Introduction to the Institute) housing DVD and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022