Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  beautiful afternoon. Last Friday marked the end of my first full week of ... the 100s of emails advertising activities at MIT have mentioned free ... about somewhere. I think in numbers. The other day, I called one of my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally ... favorite class of the semester. Why? 1. I have an awesome professor. And by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  -solving at the whiteboards, most of which i feel unprepared for.    6 ... math problems, which most of the time is trying random shit until it ... lot of [annotation note="check out the Reischauer, China, and Sejong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and ... premiere weeks in September, but traveling got the best of me. 5. Now that

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be ... office's own running of the bulls, only with more emoticons and Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... comedy shows. Of course, I entered the seminar lottery, and there were ... worth brownie points with the leader of a 6 unit seminar during pass

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... in one of two ways. The primary method of submission is MIT's teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... person. and honestly, finding these means of self-care so early in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14 ... this semester, but i thought the "most boring thing ever" was kind of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... -crushing boredom is shakier than you’d expect). 2.) Watched the entire series of

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading ... I actually liked reading the textbook. We'd watch a whole bunch of ... may have heard of. Towards the end of the year, we also got a chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  their business. Here is a tentative schedule of the event: Tuesday ... toys. ElectroPlushies, his first push into the world of toy creation, are ... about the attached picture. : ) It reminds me a bit of the song

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that ... !"]regularly.[/annotation] Of course, sometimes you just don’t have the time or the energy to cook ... the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The ... things you're doing, and past the expectations of what you should be doing ... "]what YC does.[/annotation] You feel trapped in the bubble of it all though

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... sing along. We know all of the words, too.  Loop Lounge 12

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few ... the available hosts, and ultimately we were happy with all of the ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... MIT student didn't die! 2:06 -- Most of the students here are seniors ... ." is the core mission of MIT. An example are the OLPCs people signed in

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  supplementary materials after the deadline, but some won’t. Be mindful of every ... relatives you totally didn’t forget about! a tenth of a college textbook! The ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit ... Bacon Society? Dare I even ask?Speaking of bacon, I don't see what the big ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to ... masochistic way, I miss the tooling until early morning learning all of ... So it's mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009