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• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  you!), how to get around campus, and how to pick a living group (SO MUCH ... I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  to some and hover on the fringes of others, and how there are always ... what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... here.) Kevin wants to know: How is the food at MIT? The food at MIT is ... matter how expensive their meal plans are, which is why living so close to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ?" Curious wrote, "I am wondering how many people applied to RSI, how many people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  : Do I know where to board the Concord Coach Line? How will the weather ... .[/annotation] I do not really have a plan for how to navigate the reservation at ... there me: I was in Salem NH me: And i didn't know how to get back Vincent

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... hard to accept. Eric Olsen: How did the pandemic affect your admission ... questions and that's how I would tie these two things together, which is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  interest. I don't want to learn LaTeX, or why numbers exist, or how to ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  trip, and by settling, we have forgotten how to live. Put more eloquently ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  will be the first to take humans up. You know how when NASA multistage ... imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  student when I see how devoted students here are to causes they care about ... chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ’t the full picture. MIT students do work hard, but also know how to relax ... walking back to our apartment from our friend Jess’s dinner party. Trees ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since this program is only open to MIT students, the application pool to these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  rounds on hall to check in with friends. How was your day? Good luck on ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  interested after the first hour, once I figured out how to turn on the ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... and could only think about the lovely things that he could afford to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating, "I am not going to think about elephants while writing this post ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011