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• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  your life that are most important to you. Embrace your mistakes. I can ... out over this, that, and the other - I can promise you that, by the end ... suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  works, you can see that I have a tendency to like darker stories…   ... suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... experiences I’ve traveled 3 times over IAP, and 2 times over the summer

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... dorms on Dorm Row are, so I can’t even give a good answer to this. How

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  the Mystery Hunt Website, you can check out all of the puzzles ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... joining our team remotely, you can email me at [email protected]. I'll try

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... admissions office, just because I can. (Hi, Nance.) 2 PM - 18.03 lecture. 3 ... come on optimism I am awesome I am awesome I can do this I am starting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the ... This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities ... .k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... you can't recycle old strategies. Most of the finals are run cage

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  . During our wait for SafeRide, we saw this kickass (can I say that?) Mini ... matriculating?", and I can't wait to meet some more. While I do understand that ... By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  freezer so they don’t dry out. You can buy the fat straws on Amazon as well ... (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... life seems depressing. What`s the point, I wonder. Especially if I can be ... ideas) are some of MIT`s tenets, so I bought the book. And now I`m buying

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  feet by 7 feet. You can even buy the book at Amazon.com! (For those not ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  things they can’t control all of which is to say that i feel better than i did last year. i feel like i can afford to care more about other people and about problems that are not my own. if i ever feel overwhelmed i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  laptop after I graduate someday, so maybe they can go on it. A lot of the ... -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... , because there were so many of them just chilling there. I wound up buying a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  . (What can we say? Kresge gets around.) One of these emails I got in that ... , and an MIT alum my mother is very thankful for: (What can I say? The ... [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I've been walking around

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  -graduation plans. I suspect I'll be doing a lot of exploring this year, and I can ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn’t even my top choice, but after the amazing weekend, I caught myself ... long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  the seal features two men. But here's the thing- I'm still going to buy ... everyone buys one and wears it for years and years. I met an alum from the ... and so on. But I see no reason why traditions can't change. I mean, once

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007