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• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  later for important things, like investing, buying a car or a house etc ... ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you ... , like what color sheets you want for your bed, others are important, like

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  ? What's the procedure for declaring a department, and are students locked ... great and I hope it's a good fit for me. And if I end up there, you ... cheerleading and research?" I do have a paper which is currently in revision for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  '10 and Praveen '10 serenading us, to a personal Ben '11 concert (one of ... for YEARS, I swear. A note on that back wall: Gillian and I couldn't decide on a color for it, since I had a great teal color that went well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I ... as I wanted. And the big plus, on Sundays I could bring a friend for ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only ... him because he used to play for the Braves, which I'm a long-time fan of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the ... to help him. Tragic for him, but not a reason for me not to choose MIT ... schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  inside an app like Facebook, I look for ways through which I can request a ... does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot ... is represented to make for a more straightforward analysis. For

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... staring at The Weather Channel for hours on end as a child, and having a ... house (built for and lived in by some wealthy politically-important Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... It's a stressful time. Finals are starting, decisions are coming out ... , and some friends. You have been warned. Freakangels A beautifully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  make me a little bit uncomfortable. Now, TBP isn't anything like one of MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non-hazing agreement, which also made me a little bit uncomfortable. MIT is actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... hires UROPs and is a great place for a first research experience. Jenny ... gravity and used her as a test subject for many experiments. In the future

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the ... fine place. So perhaps the lesson for this paragraph is, don't judge a school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  done with caution during the winter when leaving windows open for a long ... dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  have you believe. Kansas is a wonderful place for those looking for a ... ; Me: For someone who's only officially been a freshman for two days, I ... introduction to MIT level classes. For those of us whose first time on a college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... the process. It really was a great opportunity for my family to ... on the parents page on our site: Getting ready for the decision A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  multimaterial 3D printer which I used a lot for prototyping the housing of the ... the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now before I get hosed) after the internship ended. Over the summer, we made a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  part of home, a part of me, of my life for the past 14 years. Each time I was out there on the ice, I skated with a purpose, for the joy and ... city. Luckily, I received a bye to Eastern Sectionals, the qualifier for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019