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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city ... as my surrogate hometown, I still cling to a few Midwestern habits that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room ... with a 93.3 average and earned a full scholarship to the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... May 1st is a Sunday, we'll be happy to accept decisions postmarked on ... Harvard and ask to be released from the deferral agreement to apply as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  If you are a veteran and interested in learning in any way, shape, or ... for your service. More information about applying to MIT is available on our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here ... . But there are pros to being a HASS major at MIT as well (and there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  , and you can always turn to the internet for the soundtrack or a plot ... ) and it’s bound to be a good show. For me, it’s wonderful how easy it is ... , or a desire to keep actors somewhat on track, maybe reply to one of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different ... community was making and/or saying, figuring out a way to form IRL

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for ... idea to a group of people that could potentially steal it. I recommend a ... ran to a cluster and surfed around on the internet before finding a very

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  back to the office to read applications for a while until 4:45pm or so ... picture two below. I ran out of MASLab down to room 10-250 to check out a ... a 12-year veteran of JPL. John has "retired" to Las Vegas, where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel ... think it shows that we’re all people. And at some point, being a friend to ... been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to ... March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... especially a hard place to leave behind — the weather, the food, the shops, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their ... great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a good number of you have been!) We hope to let you know a little more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  , a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from Steven Universe a WHOPPING 3 times this year! I just want to say that Teresa listened to “Space Cowboy” by flipturn 230 times. That’s a 4 minute

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... absolutely crushed during my fall semester when I have to take it as a class ... "going to a dead guy's house," I visited the house of poet Henry Wadsworth

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sounded agreeable, so I snagged a freshman (Trevor '13) and we went to ... Rush. Floor Rush allows freshmen to wander the different floors of a dorm ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009