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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  ?) So if you come to MIT next year or in the next few years, your TA might ... in the 70s, so we proceeded to have a lovely chat about MIT housing ... one warning is that, in order to come to MIT, you'd better be fairly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  know.  But still the best way by far to take notes in most MIT classes ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... 't mean you have to lose the advantages of new technology, though.  Most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  Birds beanies. (That's me in the red that the finger is pointing to ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I ... select the most promising product ideas, and it all culminates in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to ... ’ve been spoiled by the vast array of options available to me in California ... ’m excited to be living in Boston this summer where I will have the freedom to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  . In the eighth grade, while we were all fracturing off to different high ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn ... . '20 at MIT, fell in love with the school, and promptly decided to hate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  based only upon the places that look most fun to live in - while being ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  second to think about the big picture - which is where my friends came in ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in ... of the fact that you applied to MIT, one of the most selective schools

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  analyst” starting in October, but it is good to explore professional ... much jurisdiction over the entire product. If I were to work at any ... meets twice a week, and the workload is light. Due to time zone

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... is my roommate’s girlfriend)." "Whether we are learning to avoid the ... it is not the laying down of sublime rhymes in time that makes your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  much more work maintaining friendships in the real world. I take for ... . Food is so much cheaper when it isn’t in Boston Walking into a Trader ... run key. Hardware is a little different, to say the least. When your

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  classes that you want to while at MIT, but this position is (for the most ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  parents were going to move me in my freshman year, I sat on the brick steps ... obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  transitioned to college. The educational system in the United States is clearly ... folks that it is much more challenging to live in hardship ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... just means “place” or “residence”. The poet in me still wants to relate ... ’s some good use of repetition in the parts I feel are most powerful. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  to a temple, which was one of the most beautiful complexes I have ever ... few of the kids from came up to talk with me…they were all interested in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen, and for the most part is what happens. Some, however, really want a ... between applications, the admission decisions tend not to change, and in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... harder it is to maintain healthy habits during the school year. I’ll miss

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011