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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... copied a poem by Tami Ryan below, and then pictures from today and the ... warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti ... started this year thinking we'd get to spend more time together before we ... live within a few minutes walk of each other, ever again. we went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be classified as violent assault. Students even get a discount on the classes, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... all-clear to proceed. I decided to get out and exchange my ticket for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... . 4. Write letters to friends - I love getting mail from friends, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  Cambridge, you're better off consulting a map or getting laughed at by Central ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... means you crossed one or more streets from main campus to get there. W is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  , Judy, Kevin, and I met up in Next House to get waffles. Kevin went a ... to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... early. Then, refer to 1. Don’t apply as a fictional character. You know ... your time to remember all the cool things you did in school. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also ... to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much as I should have liked. I'll have to return at some point to get a ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I ... without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to ... hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and Catan, topology and tango — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  right, hoping to get something. And by magic, and by sheer luck, I ... sometimes, or it takes me a while to get things right. I don't really ... me I should get a response within two weeks, so all I had left to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me ... school. Nothing to get depressed over, really. I guess it's clear that ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to ... ="113884" /] oh, to be a mere celebration of oneself. [carousel image1

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  finally settling to a maybe-this-isn't-so-bad idea by the time you get to ... design*. Scoring a research position is by far one of the best ways to ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  " to get help, I felt like I could exist a little bit easier knowing I ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... their worst this semester, I talked to a few trusted people in my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012