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• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind ... incredible. Just having the ability to be present in the city I love alongside

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of those conditions. It is finals week, and I hate everything. In fact, I ... have no idea how well I did in 2.12 despite the fact that I spent hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping in actual huts. It was foggy and when it rained it was absolutely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... also exist likewise in all MIT dorms. However, I feel except for diehard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade ... law of sines! This is gonna be a tough puppy, but I think you guys can handle it. Let me know if I snow anybody." So, imagine our delight when we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my ... building to since I was 19-years-old and decided I wanted to work in ... how I do things in order to keep advancing? I mean it got me here, but

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between ... so psyched to leave. Then, just in time for the home stretch I caught

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  . Most people I know in doubles use bunk beds because it saves space. My ... separate beds. I've seen bunk beds in Simmons but don't know if they ... ugly campus. And, in general, I tend to agree, in the sense that the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... cat, Rory, and I live with the amazing Dan S. '17 in a tiny three ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my ... in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  . I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008