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• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sense of independence and exploration. For my dad, watching me leave Texas ... at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  don't have anything left at the end of the year. it sucks. it also ... where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  still some fun things to be done though :).  Here’s a look at the fake ... A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  surprised - and interested - at some of the comments (each of the paragraphs ... computer science, and a grad-level class in medieval French lit at U of L ... prize APs at the expense of everything else, the parents who hound their

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  memeber of the build time (staying at school until 10 PM on the days leading ... about duct tape that makes you think of Texas? Also, Merudh asked awhile ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :50: "There are a lot of geniuses at MIT, but there are also some that feel like ... student at MIT - see her MIT mug in front of her) 5:04 to 5:11: "There's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). You'll find descriptions of MIT ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... counseling at Norfolk Academy, in Virginia, says one of his seniors was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... literature (although some clearly were not good in studies at all - one of them ... NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many ... , influential positions at the GAO, the Institute of Medicine, the Department of ... screen TV in the offices of The Tech, MIT's student newspaper. At that time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell ... like here at MIT. I'll try to post a lot of pictures, links, videos, etc ... . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  [/annotation] by going to Texas Roadhouse. It's time for us all to renew our vows of ... program at MIT, which “brings together distinguished members of the faculty ... ’ve worked with c: 2019 Oh man, look at all of the [annotation note="if you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• 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…

  

  hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... perpetual state of running around and doing five things at once.  

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

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of ... volunteer at the MIT Science Olympiad. Being on the other side of all the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008