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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love ... did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main

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

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to pretend that temperatures like that don’t exist. Anyways. The point of all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... weeks before January 1 working on regular action applications for other ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast ... important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and ... digging around through bunches of paper. Score one for blog comments being

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... moment for me, because this time last year Anthony was simply one of my ... reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  at IS&T, I silently pray that the person on the other end of the ... on them for the rest of my life. I think it's kind of silly that we ... . =) I mean, sure, I sort of turned my back on things I've been interested

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... of a cloudy sky and a soft, enlivening smattering of frigid mist on my ... could drop any one of my classes with practically no consequences for my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for ... My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  ’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum ... comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021