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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ... snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... an actual break for me this year- it seems like almost every other

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a mechanical engineer anyway?"* *you're probably not thinking this, but hey it ... , and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages an elaborate delivery ceremony. How did this all start? The history of ... a massive bezel bearing an image of a beaver. Its official name is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  . It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... " (by the way, it's pset, not PSET. pset looks so much nicer. actually ... 't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I guess it’s better late than never, so here’s that blog: On Monday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... , and how it is representative of everything in my life. Due to a ... normal. Although it was really the only effective way to perform this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... grad school, so working really hard on it between now and the end of ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  trying to finish high school a year early?" "How do you do it?" "Are you ... classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... will review your application when it's ready. Before you do anything

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... , but give it some time and you will eventually be able to find how to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking ... your way home from Boston Logan, it’s free. I Instagrammed the trip back ... advertises the next Red Line trains. It will list Alewife, Ashmont, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  both did one-month long externships through the MIT externship program that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  lecture halls with those said real adults. It could only mean one thing... it was Family Weekend! ... which also meant that the average hilarity ... know how many times I got recognized during that weekend? Zero. Once

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... write on their behalf, I jumped at the chance. It’s been an interesting ... other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very offbeat things. Better yet, since MIT has a lot of sub-communities, it

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to tie my shoes in the morning. There is no EXCUSE!" I have no excuse. It's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  .prod.' Thinking of a comm.prod often takes 3rd times as long as it takes to write ... wonderful community. It's even crazier to think of how [annotation note ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  it? And also to look at how the structure of the class I was taking was ... post and published it. Applicants started contacting me, telling me how ... It's been a rough and challenging December and semester overall, both

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014