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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... what we call the dressers. I'm pretty sure I need to climb on top to get to everything, but I feel like getting down will be really challenging

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... interview, try to be especially flexible in your availability, as your EC also

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ...er...girl): It's always dangerous, non-productive or you get lied to when you ask a ... . Even in retold fairy tales, people get amazing feats done by being clever ... more beneficial to the audience. You maximize your time and don't get as

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The ... ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  , said tschüss to all those tenuous late nights (and early mornings) in ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... think so. And Ryan went to the Party in Philly: I went to the admitted student party in Philadelphia tonight. I knew it was going to be fun, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don ... like in Calc AB. In high school, I always used to bug my math teacher

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  student center, to get her new ID card. And now I'm sitting on my bed. In ... fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in ... hopped in Raphael's, went out to dinner, then helped him move all his stuff

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... portions in order to increase my endurance. 2. Brass Bear Deli: this would

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... step in the lesson plan - it said to drop the tablets in the water, and ... !!!!!" I was stunned. One kid sidled up next to me, and gazed up in awe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life. Though in general, it’s a good idea to keep taking HASS classes, at least

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels ... addicts featured in Infinite Jest, although she doesn’t seem to be truly ... how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018