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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , and tried not to think about the fact that we'd been in the car for ... slept outside a 7/11. Whoops.) We stopped periodically for the toilet and ... two of his friends from Montana, who just moved to Boston for college

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  I said then, ...FIRST (which stands for For Inspiration and ... against a field of dozens for the chance to qualify for the Championship ... , swapping blue "Team 1073" shirts for gray and maroon MIT shirts depending on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... . No no, this doesn't make us terrible people, we promise! If anything ... bless it with a single perfect shot. That's love for ya right there

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  bathroom wafting overhead for six hours, the guy in front of me reclining ... thankful for this particular kid, though, because 1) there is only one of ... lot more food. Sophomore year seems about as good a time as any for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview ... was already pretty convinced that MIT was the place for me. I was ... Next for my first two years) and I tried to do as much as possible during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... knock on the glass--you don't have to open the door for them in this case ... , I only do this for sketchy- or imposing-looking people. Life's too

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

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... opened up the floodgates of my hatred for those stupid HASS requirements ... be required for my major." Mom: "So take 24.900, it fulfills all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of ... foremost resource on “how to MIT.” Actually get to know us—first impressions ... , brace yourself for lift-off or landing. Get to know your professors and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to ... lifetime supply of MIT merch for everyone. since my host sister had visited ... family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to start the essay. Of course, it's different for everyone. But I found that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  get an epidemiological study on us?? (But for real, all this taught me ... for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  married, now with two dogs, for eleven years. The impact of meeting her is ... (though perhaps not for me) to compete GPA-wise with applicants from ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other ... happened. for the most part, each round in bloons tower defense is harder ... have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  by those who came before us, to define the unknown for ourselves ... sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for

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

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... ’s side visited us every single summer. My maternal grandfather was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and ... most of the later rounds cheering for the teams that had shown the greatest mercy in making us look unequivocally lame to the dozens of 12-year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  double (my double) and some singles. It was kind of important for us to ... different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... 're not done yet! When you get to campus for orientation you'll stay in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  help us out.' As I stated earlier, I will be staffing as an intern at LAW ... will be responsible for filming the work being done on each job site and ... children. I will also be responsible for managing the technological aspects

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... replied: Whoops. Thanks for letting me know! My most loyal, dedicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013