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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  Bridge for a day to film 21? (More on the movie itself later.) #35 - Wait ... 't appear to be very fond of us.) #56 - I want this book. (How about it, Mom ... A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story. Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  bitchiness. How did my high school friends get to know me? They initiated ... for some reason I do not automatically ask questions back to people ... pretty tan! How was your summer? me: Good. I went to the beach. pgf: Oh

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  how to articularte it.  I've spent countless hours after work sitting ... application essays I want to complete before I leave for my semester abroad.  I ... to potholes, looking at how federal policy affects local projects

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I ... the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... you know that the original Uncle Sam was born near Boston?) I headed to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  , all relate to a time crunch. This time crunch presents itself in a ... to dedicate to psets, studying for exams, and pursuing extracurricular ... -register (at Harvard or Wellesley for example) or if you want to take graduate

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... 's much easier for me to justify skipping a workout when all that's at stake ... friends and family to help me when I struggled. I'm thankful for them. I am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... outdated. This is how I went about the college recruiting process for soccer, and how I eventually committed to MIT. I’m not entirely sure how other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  , she thinks, than someone learning how to speak something for you ... you head to Mondstadt, the city of freedom, to start looking for Lumine ... keep searching for his sister and talk to Liyue’s god, who goes by

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  , after which I was arrested for not blogging enough. (If you’re trying to ... any idea of how to do. And then you’ll spend 20 hours learning chemistry ... been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... had to ask for the school to not put me in the lowest classes. Their

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

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for ... left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  curious to learn more: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/preparing_for ... activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... -cross applesauce on the field, waiting for our rocket to be launched into the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing ... -hop/modern) - Live Music Connection Guitar-off (electric guitars, shredding) (For ... examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  first chance for the fencing sophomores to show off their new rings at a ... this is the fencing team’s version. There is food, merriment, gifts for ... After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014