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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... Millennium Campus Conference, which drew over 1,000 people from all over the ... you spend on pop, or morning coffee, or that Starbucks Venti Grande Lo

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  . There are 1) only so many hours in a day and 2) we have physical limits ... day or the next. But sometimes, some of my friends that have also been ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  new year (she/her):flag-mx: 1 month ago Got to the airport way too late ... bag cut off or whatever and there's no guarantee my bag will get to the ... funny post about this flight."][/annotation] Before 1st Flight The morning

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on the same code all day? All questions that concerned me and the next 40 ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  addicted to Facebook, you or Jess Kim? Prove your theory in 100 words or less ... /screenname/etc. Tell us your major or intended major (list all possibilities), and what activities you hope to become involved with at MIT (or what you already do here

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  supposed to be study halls or lunch periods, missing a few days a week of ... trees or sunsets or the moon and adding a color-coordinated border and ... computer science and writing 2010-2016: MIT undergrad (6-7/18, or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... mom on my day or finish up a HASS reading. so foreign ah R E S T A U R ... yourself since you hang out with yourself 24/7. Here are some thoughts about

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and Luisa B. ’16 baked from scratch 1.909859317102744... π pies (and I did dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... what happens as you become a seasoned admissions officer, or maybe you ... American Idol addiction comes in handy (did the women pwn last night or what

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  Admissions Decisions 1. Dream about getting into colleges that don't exist ... towards your applications but you like talking to, or whatever. It doesn't matter whether or not they directly helped you get in; these people helped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  I took this internship to figure out whether or not I wanted to pursue software engineering or not and it was a really difficult journey but I ... . If you do not like talking to people a lot or hours and hours of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  -excited sophomore that day?) Further in the category of "run-ins with Nobel laureates" -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at ... the planet. Answers! Get your answers! 1. Lorelai asked, "what should i

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ! What's not to love? 2. Overlooking lobby 7 from the second or third floor ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... schools don't ask for mid-year reports or expect that you'll keep your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the ... being sick, this illness was notably bad for two reasons: #1: Zendaya I am a lifelong, ride-or-die Zendaya fan. Not that bad that I know her

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  may be: numbers (one of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,.. note that I included ... the TRAILING state if OP1 is OPS (i.e. if OP1 is one of + or -). In this state, OP2 becomes OPC (i.e. one of * or /) and OP1 is always an OPS. S

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  definitely either ski or snowboard. [carousel image1="99978" image2 ... . [carousel image1="99977" image2="99988" image3="99987" /] 7. Others If you are ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  variations on the same class) and can go ahead and take 7.02 or 7.03. If you ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... stopped holding the bike and you rode it all by yourself (or fell down and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  students: 1,611 2010 admit rate: 9.7% Waitlisted students: 722 Represented ... admitted students in the days and weeks to come. In the meantime, we

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  1 - A Good Day) Eventually, we were allowed back on campus. I wrote ... offices, or explain the things that I learned as a result of trauma, but I ... either way. This is also why I added section heads, so that there are

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022