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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Silberman, dean of enrollment at Kalamazoo College, received a three-page ... From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  post. I arrived at Logan International with Anika through a shared Uber ... ’m here through MISTI, or MIT International Science and Technology ... where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  should review for Physics. I know, I'll start at Chapter 1, page 1 ... outward from there rather than starting from page 1 every review." No more ... . Write at least three blog posts a month.   1. Simplify and keep

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... : "Living and learning at MIT is not a spectator sport." 9:24am: President

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people ... Dordle, guessing two Wordles at once Squardle, guessing a grid of ... words are chosen randomly from the English dictionary please wait at least

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  , elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but ... friend who also skated at MIT to teach me how to step over cracks and brake. Then I started skating around campus, to class. I would take them out at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... volunteered at a bunch of Asian community health clinics. Now, I write MCAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  feet were on the ground. Then, I stood in line at Dulles International ... easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am ... a cockpit. All the passengers turned to stare at each other - I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  . Unless you are an international Olympian at being Kanye West (or uh, at Physics) you might be caught at some point, post acceptance giddiness ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair ... Arizona Diamondbacks-Washington Nationals baseball game at Bank One Ballpark ... Cruise, a reunion dinner at Baker House (my old dorm), a "Young Alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Italy, France, or Hong Kong? MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s flagship international education program that
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  became more of a "Christmas" dinner): We had a truly "international ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had ... , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... ) at the Institute. STAND and Amnesty International are hosting two ... Visiting Research Fellow at the time), a group bombed the CIS. Since that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the ... ? (looks at Frank) Didn't that one girl say there's going to be a guest

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms ... is probably the biggest/most popular of the international IAP programs ... Composition (for people who were at a Spanish IV level or higher) and Spanish

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ="attachment_54934" align="aligncenter" width="225"] look at the clean, shiny surfaces ... excited about this. I thought, at the time, that only MacGregor had gotten ... anonymously about it on "MIT Confessions" (a public Facebook page) and 3 more on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  haven't often feel this way at MIT, so I was enjoying it. Ulysses is ... ,000 words), and hundreds of jokes/puns/foreign phrases that require 700 pages ... , and I diligently take pages of notes each class to supplement my reading

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  . Bottom: Relatable Content. The page, including blank social life, is me at ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... surprise goodie bag left at 3am on the the doors of East Campus residents

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  sullen students recognize each other in line at La Verde's. Tiredly, the ... 'd rather take a HASS test than read a hundred pages on something completely ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... video and stared at the screen in disbelief. [caption id ... looks radioactive.” I’d heard horror stories from my international

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022