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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  keep my busy this summer, one of which is... THE DREADED MCAT. Yeah ... (one branch of the national Camp Kesem organization) is a student group ... ! ♥ Being silly Happy! Ambar '12 with a group of young campers The 2010

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... Ghost of Stephen Foster by the Squirrel Nut Zippers 4:13 PM Alright, I ... throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing.

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... ’d found myself again — in the starlit streets of Copenhagen, in the heat of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... Podcast, and freak out over Brexit. The only grain of similarity I could get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... convey who you are (or some aspect of who you are). If I, the reader, am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action ... the anxiety, but beneath that, there was a layer of community. It ... . It’s probably part of the application experience. When the countdown

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the ... thing that dawned upon me was the concept of "average." Being average is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ... the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My ... Tea-do (one of Boston’s very few boba shops) when he realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save ... -14 days for the processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted ... your MyMIT account to follow the progress of your application (You must

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... of the friendships formed here, whether ephemeral or forever. They also ... the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... story of an inception attempt that failed in the face of true love; they ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... off the front page, and the only thing I hate more than getting pushed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each of the groups The next day, I walked through Lobby 10 and saw my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... 's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005