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• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... eventually going to have to think about. All I really knew was that I liked to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... isn't so surprising. When applying to MIT three years ago (it's been 3

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  Architecture & Planning students to Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Spain to explore foreign architecture and ... Dima Ayyash, Maggie Nelson and Nathan Prevende, went through MISTI to try

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ambitious, have goals and dreams, and are willing to commit to making those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT ... tirelessly to improve publicity of and communication within MIT's arts ... great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... it to my family to spend at least one week at home with them before

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... destined to wage intra-campus aqueous warfare. I’d ditched all the ... tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find my bed upgraded from twin size to full size (!!); makes me scared about the transition back to twin size in September though – heh. * Drowned

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be ... closely there are similarities to that species on Earth that we all know as

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... than they had been before they went off to college. My grandfather has ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009