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• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  College Confidential. Now 4 years ago, I didn't know something like CC ... indicate your preparedness for college. I recently realized this with my ... PERFECT" but then I realized that graduate school is not just about GPA. For

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  back Southern Illinois cookies for us to try. I wasn't sure what makes a ... three friends join us for dinner! Two are also MIT '27, and one is from ... I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  for dark chocolate. Ultimately, they were too sweet for us. Caramel ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I ... blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... their interests and aptitudes with us on the standard MIT application ... significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let ... have a memorial for the Salem Witch Trials’ 20 victims (if you don’t remember the event that “shattered the rock of theocracy” from high school US

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  come up. It would’ve been disappointing for us to book housing and plan ... -sleep aboard the bus for 14 hours, we awoke in Barcelona. Because of the abnormal ... paths. The air was a cold crisp, and the early sun dappled us with a light

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  variable is responsible for the fact that we sold out Lobdell Food Court: 1 ... microphone was awesome, and maybe that's the reason why they told us we couldn't sell any more tickets, but the bands were quality, and I was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  pm EST. And as for my holiday shopping: no, it's still not done (too ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants, decisions will be posted. For regular action applicants, the deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... freshman year, although, for many reasons, I still think freshman year ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  for the past few months, from 7 to 10 pm, I've thought about that ... machine shop tools, introduce them to the product engineering process, give ... honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  normal person seeing this movie for the second time, I obsessively combed through every grain of Tarantino's visual/audio landscape for clues about ... Half-Blood Snape-I-Mean-Prince, Love Actually, and Thank You For Smoking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... few days I've been busy designing a new television commercial for ... on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  of shopping advice blog, with article titles like “Deals of the Week ... (and occasionally I have found good shopping advice, like this skincare ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  blogged about judging Trashion last year, and, for some reason, the ... Venkataraman, who directs global policy initiatives for the Broad Institute and ... -use than make a Trashion piece? Make sure to look out for parts of her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... 't unsee the work behind these products. There's a bajillion people for every nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice ... our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in ... and he roasted me for calling it "bubble tea" instead of [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed as some incarnation of death (?). I have no idea. But hooray for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014