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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my Physics gradebook while obsessively refreshing the page, hoping my grades ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  minute! What happens if some of my school forms come in past the deadline ... interview report has not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking. The deadline for ... interview report. I sent things in on time, but I don’t see it on My

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  waiting to be skyrocketed into fame as an arm model); my picture is second ... gotta come. My first thought was to let a couple of my friends from high school know, because they are/were huge fans of Lil B. My second thought

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post ... some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is ... Career Fair! Yes! My first Career Fair!. All of my favorite companies in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD ... Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where ... the Pleides than in any other part of the sky. My computer at the NRAO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy classification (my dad will remember that "spheres=hot gas" and "disks=cold gas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  challenges and attend my first event of Bad Ideas, the Craigslist Scavenger Hunt. My friend Ali F. '16 rented a zip car Friday night and six of us ... to study for my physics final Monday. But then it was Saturday. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... and eating my words two years later). Next. What was his favorite class ... golf balls. (As of today, that is still the extent of my chemical

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  my super warm electric blanket (hooray to Mommy who made me bring it to ... Bath Abbey? Or was it the company of my fabulous traveling buddies? I ... that have been supplying water for the bath for thousands of years (my

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

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... one application in particular that I poured my heart into - I wrote nine versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  is one that I've learned more and more throughout my time here at MIT, and particularly through one of my favorite classes, 2.009. (As an aside ... understand firsthand while exploring the mechanism for my 2.009 project (whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best ... meant to give you uber math skills. The first thing my eyes wandered to ... just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the opportunities I have here? Am I happy here? During one of my reflection times, one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... -type figure” and maybe not someone you want giving you advice. My 18-yr-old just ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  ) are sadly shriveling.   My english teacher would be proud of that ... about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate, because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  ;marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I ... my nervousness about singing solo. To that end, I went to the ... hearing other a capella groups perform, my desperation to join the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , and if all my friends jumped off the Harvard bridge... well, actually, come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011