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• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated ... taking a gap year; so i would be around the area, you know, i’d be seeing ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse ... them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... to capture is ~the deep talk~. Most college students have experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  🎶Will the stars align? 🎶 🎶Will my interviews go fine?🎶 🎶Will the ... the large crowds Stand in long lines for your turn But this ain't Disney 😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... hitting the gym? Besides, after this humongous pie I'd say it's time for a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays ... forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... 't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial ... the punny hack.)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog ...  police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... ’re finally starting something new. Regardless, the end (or is it the beginning

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when ... sounds some sirens if you leave the "doors" of the "car" open too long (where the doors are just buttons and switches on this circuit board

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously. Here’s a brief inventory of some of the notable mementos I’ve acquired so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of mine who are in ROTC, the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Tessa and Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds ... , and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary ... interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  write this post before AP exams hit, but I just checked the College ... . However, the following are mostly general study tips that could be applied ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm ... decisions again.  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted!

  

  It was #greyandred all along...    Use the comment section below to introduce yourselves :) 

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  from this past semester (the MITx supplemental video-making one), I ... too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015