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• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... Hello, Class of 2012! There's lots of fun stuff now on your My ... hundreds of events listed on the schedule, from formal events like the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet ... fish "Ian Brelinsky" in honor of Ian '06. I guess I have led a very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed, referencing Wenjun's only current internship offer in Tempe, which he

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  --Steam Cafe offers two of each per day, one vegetarian and one meat. They change ... chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... your past self, what you thought of things, and how little you knew of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not ... wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections ... price of 50 € RT, with an included meal and up to three (3) beverages of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009