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• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  MIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about ... to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 ... bucketload to the Admissions Records Office. Noah and team open the envelopes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  sucks," every time there's a projection error, just to show how much we ... presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show ... get to see them for free. I only have to work one evening each month

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one ... Spain had taught me how to appreciate the "little moments" of my life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher ... 'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  that contributes to how the overall campus felt (har har, more theme ... While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  biology grad school admissions. I promise. 3. Susan asked how to stand out ... , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  floor and not the fifth). In this case, I actually did know how to do ... got too-short ones twice in a row). Ten minutes to figure out how we ... up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• 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…

  

  initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... stabbed or shot or—are you kidding me? That’s how you decide to do it? Large ... coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  fraternities...how many boys choose not to join one and what do they miss out on ... a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... goes to show how people here are not happy unless they're unhappy ... lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... instant mood booster. My podmate asked if I wanted to attend our 18

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  get closer to looking like what I wanted to look like. I can’t count how ... four years about how you never lived up to the things you said you’d do ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  construction of the fort railings (which basically means telling freshman how to do my job) a day after learning how to make them myself. And although I ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  set up, right? How were they able to set it up quickly enough? It must ... . When they went up to remove it, they found full documentation about how ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with ... thing that I wanted to happen, did. I have absolutely no idea how well it ... Responses to comments: Aaron said: Actually, Anna Lucia was killed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  17 of MIT. He says the team actively teaches its members how to do ... always talked about how he’d build a fully functional Iron Man suit to ... chords, and has no idea how to transition between them (hint: anyone

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries ... the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025