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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  hall, before class. “Who wants to be able to tell your future employers ... summer just to get to Cambridge.   I have a lot more to talk about from ... . ‘18) I have found my perfect match, my ideal college, and now I get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list ... , I'm probably going to go back this weekend (and maybe actually get ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  understand, but you can try your best to decipher it [SPOILERS AHEAD] here ... ruined everything, it shipped to my MIT address and I couldn't get it. So I ... get a poster but a friend happened to win this poster and didn't really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... to be an admissions blogger read, Once, years ago, there was a Great ... day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  . I guess you'll have to come and see for yourself! (or get 5's on ... other. It's all about what you want to get out of the program. And (wow ... piece of advice: if it is at all possible, try to read your decision

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most ... aches. My legs were so sore that I didn't get out of bed for the rest of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  : As you can see, it is best to use a hook size that matches your yarn ... could level out with your yarn, and you become acclimated to the rigor of MIT. Otherwise, you adjust your yarn to match your hook, and you create

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... between 750-800 if 15%. It means that those students whom we chose to admit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... is crucial to have “someone up your sleeve who will save you,” Dr ... your comments forth and I’ll try to write more when I’m confident that I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  you're an incoming frosh, you should make sure to come. Actually, you ... after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them ... was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... soon the path to solution worked, getting the right answer was definitely ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  you"thing. You should get a damn good lock for your bike - maybe two (I ... one of you for a donation of whatever you're willing to give - even if ... 'll get to fill out an anonymous class evaluation so the powers-that-be know

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008