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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  Shuli J. '22 (2018): I knew I would be nervous when the time came, because ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would ... gone an hour and a half after I put it in the freezer). On 5th East, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  logo. This was before we knew that the internship would be in-person. We ... Park. And on the Discord server us interns were in, I looked for others ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... everything that you've already told us in the application. If we did, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer ... school after being in DC all summer, I went about finding a UROP for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a ... words i.e. pogonotrophy (beardedness).) So in order to divide my short ... 'll just end up having to read about what I did this weekend. (In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here ... rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  GIRs, and I would never have to take another physics class in my life ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... account (not that I'm out buying couture, just caffeine drinks and Thai food ... . But also, not in TechCash. Day 6: or why I've been banned from Anna

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Mikhailovsky castle, which I lived five minutes away from in the fall. I would ... before I would leave for Russia. We went in the morning, so the museum was ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone a Drink How to Get Someone to Buy You a Drink ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... , we would do sprints in the Charles River basin, and I would yell into ... , and I would do the whole thing again in a heartbeat — the missed Friday

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I ... enough complaining. I am in a superb lit class that is tackling this book

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... . Then that following fall I lived with four people including myself in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... preparing for the world that I would be presented once I left the comforts of my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in ... had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this happen, I could at least buy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007