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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow waters. I would rather labor over advanced biology or mechanics, it’s all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... 's Universe (although he's been asking for it back. Not that I wanted it in the ... of the housing system. For the past week, I've been sleeping in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... France coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . There are just 2 things I would like to clear up. Number one: New Jersey ... big thought, so get comfortable. The last science fair I went to was in my elementary school's gymnasium in the fourth grade. All I know about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I ... astronomers I know, writing proposals is a huge pain in the butt; it's one of ... conference in January, I talked with a bunch of the NRAO astronomers, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  . Phew. Okay. Now to launch into specifics. I live in MacGregor (I think ... perspectives (OHMYGOSH how am I gonna represent myself well in 30 seconds and ... crow why on earth would I try and pass judgment on someone I just met and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the ... wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel old? Well, I, as a prematurely wizened twentysomething, can tell you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... your case (and might hurt it). I would recommend sending us a note (no ... remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... (and might hurt it). I would recommend sending us a note (no more than a ... remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• 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 ... campus. In my freshman fall, I was afraid to do sorority recruitment. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped ... caption? Anita and I riding in a “tricycle”: a common form of transport in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... undergrad members of management to come talk on camera so that I would have ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  would try to catalogue EVERYTHING! I took my camera, two memory cards, and ... of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish ... paragraphs in your entry (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the ... undergraduates in July of 2017. The circumstances surrounding the closure were

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... they would probably attack me and “make the bed with [me] inside it.” I really like when things are clean, to the extent that I can’t p-set in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I ... in each fraternity's effort to convince freshmen to join. I'm not much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  was visiting alone, since that's how I would be experiencing them for ... really likes Taylor Swift, it felt very "So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off")) I had no clue what I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019