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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  particularly grabbing. We then began a Q&A session, and that was where the real ... time, another school took its place as my number one, and then the two ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... , the only evidence of it being a slight tenderness and a dull throbbing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  So this weekend I managed to visit two time zones and five airports. In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... connection and decided to walk around the airport, and apparently, I'd ventured

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  'm sure, but passion and motivation are the real necessities. Q. Isn't MIT ... ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  students excited about doing real science is a good thing. And possibly the ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And, in a way, I was. Science isn't celebrated enough in our society, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  that the FLX could test our leadership and problem-solving abilities. But ... Force and its history, customs, and practices. Every year the focus shifts ... and junior year, and after that towards working and living as an Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  comfortable riding a bike, I was nine years old, and In the past decade I have ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  ' for the friends I've made here and the team that I've rowed with for our ... is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... lifestyle here at Cambridge, one where I go to bed early and wake early to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Hopefully, you’ll come to terms with the unknown and allow yourself to take ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... no idea what caused it (and still have no idea), but I assumed it would disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  work through the problem, and I would be left in the dark in terms of ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  remove it until we'd had a chance to talk about it, and he graciously ... going to become a heated debate between current students and other current students, and wasn't really going to serve prospective students, the target

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  their belt and to explore the nitty-gritty of some real topics that they ... 're honest, real, and helpful. Now it's time to talk about the application! 2 ... Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding. Many of us have big adventures and exciting weeks, and I do too, but most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  , extracurricular opportunities that may cost money to participate in, and nearly ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that ... officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you ... CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing sights as my bunny hat, my $3 airplane jacket, and Mitra's 14.41 midterm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010