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• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  interviews, however, if the nearest EC to the applicant is very far away (as in ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... MODEM, COFAS (and explain about them in the explanation sheet) or is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  ), some part of me is still writhing in refusal to compromise with the ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  weekend to address those issues that are most important to you, the parent ... to would be in the Parent’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or ... , especially in the springtime, so you should be prepared for anything. Boston is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... II expecting high 700 in all. Yeah, btw my SAT I math is 700 (the most ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional ... -tracked away from that comfort zone I once had. The most I did to reconnect with ... then, it was one of the classes I dedicated the most time to (due to how

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  . but our bosses sometimes buy us boba so it's okay here is the title ... several different art styles and con the admissions office into buying us ... us do multiple art styles in the same video. and we also liked the idea

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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