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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... other lane is the fast lane, or passing lane. I drive defensively, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting ... know if you would be able to drop by! Thanks I, for one, thought this ... butterflies and bunnies. I await your response in eager anticipation. Love

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going ... . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... - but you would never hear someone in our office generalize an applicant ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... speech. I also didn't know what order the ceremonies were going in. During

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... seconds. But I'm glad to have felt such cold up in the Big Rocks, as the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... minutes away from Boston, feel like more of a tourist here than i did in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... walked to Kendall Square Cinema to see Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.I ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... nothing. I recall our jaunts around the creeks in nearby Mexico during ... . Round two came around 11pm in the form of steak tips. I can’t tell you

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my rental car. Because I was in California, my first stop was In-N-Out. I ... LAUSD. I spoke to about 25 students who came in during their lunch to hear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to ... sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my financial

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... into sorbet. I feel like at this point, you would start to wonder if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  that you attend. I'm involved in: Campus Tours - If this is your ... ! I would also recommend: Tours of UROPs Tours of Freshman Learning ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  would have built in my bedroom anyway. The difference this time was that I ... pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... origami pleated designs I folded in my freshman year. These pieces only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... asking me questions about specific things I had done in his class. The ... in all my details about that one specific incident. By now I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  problem, I would know the answer because I had done that question several ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... said. ''Now, I'm finally going where I want to be going.'' He'll live in ... Elizabeth Lozada was in middle school in El Paso, she remembered hearing about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006