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• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... give you on how to do that: I don't sleep with my brass rat on. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  the country might look like or how far I went to stick out on this ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... , a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... like an outsider in the class since I just haven't played video games in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  film in was something I'll never forget. And I'll definitely never ... script is still in its early stages; even so, I'm so excited for its ... There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  MIT, how I feel about them, what I loved, what I'd do differently ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... unfriendly fluorescent lights together. In the interest of full disclosure: I ... .) I had absolutely zero interest in these schools, but my mom wasn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... around in the back of my head. I felt I wouldn't fit in unless my idea of a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... . I exaggerate, of course. In sandwich terms (what better terms are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  ![/caption] Amber: What was your role(s) in the club last year?  Audrey: I started ... . Amber: I’ve enjoyed the vibe every time I hung out with Arcturus. How ... and 3rd in design, winning $1.5K in prizes. I’m so proud of the team for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in ... March 2004 in the Boston Globe. After you read it you'll know why I love

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... , I will again describe how housing works. After being admitted and ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the ... transportation, and what they do for jobs in order to see if MIT students can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING!" On that post (not this one!), you can go down in the ... , you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is the Internet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... life and in this process there isn’t much they can do to help beyond

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014