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• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  appealing pieces and a better life. You'll know how to gauge for success in ... tangible representation of how I go about living. How? Let's go back to ... other. For example, when I look back to high school, I was surrounded

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  biggest suite on the floor, so it's a pretty central location for people to ... is now a great place for freshmen to convene and study for their exams ... place for all of us to put our stuff and our decorations," noted Mahati

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to ... to med school. There wasn't any particular reason for this...I had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  ? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... students admitted to the MIT Class of 2014, and especially for the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about ... . Naturally, when people starting asking me about how many classes I had to take/how ... 's surprise and curiosity to how it worked. The rules are as follows: 4-year

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay ... blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... was waiting for someone to come breathe that rare air with her, and when ... how to balance my time, prioritize my health and wellbeing, study, eat

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , you may not realize how weird it is for upperclassmen to want to date ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have ... people choose to get jobs at companies over the summer, for several reasons

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  follow you i wish i knew your name but for now i’ll call you by your ... _hidden]every time i get an email from you my heart skips a beat how i wish you would say those three little words three little words to change my life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you ... -long Kurt Vonnegut binge that was unrelated to college but did inspire me for ... of people to thank for that. Really, it was a “so we did

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... given it, but to my surprise it was ready for me when I got there. You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... for you, someone out there is. All you have to do is be direct about ... startup looking to recruit for its editorial staff, which sounded like tons

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  whatever seemed to fit the bill for an application. I can't stress how vital ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... like, "Keep it up. Study for the MCAT. And don't forget to shadow doctors

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  Cambridge, to meet some friends for breakfast...only to run into them walking ... indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... distribution of hours, to give you a sense of how you will be spending your time

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... -than-acquaintances-not-quite-friends-yet, and a lot of [annotation note="idk how to characterize levels of ... stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to ... goals for spring break: 1. go to the optometrist to replace the pair 2 ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... super convenient for me to maximize my training time, especially on days ... studying for the 6.006 exam. I arranged to take it on Monday, but I knew I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016