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• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore ... blood, my eyes closing on me. The only other memory I have is holding my ... was the monkey that I was, 360ing on monkey bars and cartwheeling off of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  mentor, steven, shows me to my desk and helps me set up my computer ... "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he ... time to explore during the weekdays, and life seems to just be get up, go

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  ?     On Saturday, February 25, 2017, four intrepid biological engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... never anything like that near where I lived. Suddenly, thrust into Boston ... city-wide pillow fights, XKCD meetups, riding the T without pants on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  compartmentalize my thoughts into two pieces. So this blog will focus on the positive ... with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... shapes and sizes. Some really gave me hell when I was working on them. But

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... don't have any questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other ... students on our database (MyMIT registrants and others) inviting them to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously ... :00 WEdnesday for Floor Rush. So basically every single freshman on campus will be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  information on Einstein's life, the importance of the equation in today ... light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell ... shown on PBS stations nationwide on Tuesday, October 11. The program

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  quite fitting that, upon arriving on campus, the first thing we freshmen ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these ... I arrived on campus on August 22, five days before Orientation began

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... . We only get a 3 course meal on a daily basis. Haha. No joke! But that

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  housemaster of East Campus dormitory. We chatted a bit about my slowly ... reception, so I got on my mobile phone and called Nightline, MIT's peer ... on serious issues like stress, depression, sexuality, etc, but to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... event planner in the world, or even in the suite in which I live, but we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  's amazing post "Black Lives Matter" (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  by an alien witch living in a dumpster on the moon a first-class online ... the digital ooze, my job is to help make the Internet go for the ... wanted to be truthful, I'd say I try to use cool technology to help MIT and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  Start spreading the news! The new mnemonic for the planets is: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing. Congrats to Shawn for winning! If you'd like to redeem your super awesome prize, email me at

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who's been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here's a bit of good news - we got 'em! They'll be loaded into the system tonight. Now stop worrying! ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As ... very much builds on itself, and if you miss a vital piece of foundation

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , my parents were planning on going to a wedding in Korea and decided to visit Japan on a whim, partially due to my beginning studying Japanese

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018