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• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I decided to draw. Expressing myself through color and bad Photoshop layer

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like ... online again and ready to blog about what's happened so far (: As far as

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I mean 'since I became an admissions blogger'. To this day, I maintain that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way. When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  This weekend, I headed down to Washington, DC, for the Rally to ... , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat ... MIT well before 5:45pm. If you choose to ignore my advice, you will not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday, August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  "), we admitted 1611 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  -y - maybe it's that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it's that we ... class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by quite quickly. Unfortunately, when I got to MIT, the work continued but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a ... -playing. The players are essentially actors, doing their best to act out the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1554 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

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

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... fish and seafood species are projected to collapse within my lifetime

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007