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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... other than the baseball team). I was in Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics. I ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

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

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  replacement for the period, who knows :p in actuality, however, one of my ... to write in for the blogs, since it comes most naturally to me. i ... writing in standard. for more casual life/culture/boston stuff it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... does not have to be what you actually major in -- there are no quotas for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  your situation in Quantum II class. I hope that things even out for you ... gaps in my mathematical background, and I'm way better off for it." How ... the community college I'm attending for the next two years in place of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  associating with whiteness, because of course that is what one would wish for in ... explicit race in mind for this fantasy guy, in retrospect, whiteness was an ... In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... I finally snapped the photo I had come for. All in all, it was ... interesting physical and logistical challenges for their perpetrators. As you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that ... more information on this, so check for emails from them. Keep in mind ... starts. If you are arriving right in time for international orientation

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for ... stylized/artistic/vlog-like diary in which she and her friends speak their ... featured in a blog post tomorrow, immediately following our final

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant, mystical tones. That might be me romanticizing it. In retrospect, the admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  in my hair, five showers later. Steer Roast, the context for this ... . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a narrow victory for Lowell. (Photo credit to Eric Schmiedl '09) Yes, that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the ... to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... my scores for your consideration? No: in fairness to all applicants

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  .31 (Topics in Mammalian Biology), five for 21A.260 (Embodiment and the Senses ... flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... 'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice ... meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the ... asking questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in ... stop for lunch, and lots of practice in Spanish conversation, I soon

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... : it can be tedious and time-consuming, but you've gotta do it. And in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... , I attended a few Zoom sessions in the morning for [annotation note ... wanted to live in Russia for a significant period of time. After spending

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020