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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... it to see how MIT has changed me. You can usually [annotation note="yes, everybody can tell that you are a freak obsessed with final fantasy 7. i guess

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  medieval literature in a game of pixilated world domination. And I can say ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... experience. So, going back to the original question: how did I end up mass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... start masking as neurotypical again. It’s funny how I can’t seem to put a ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... , I'm still quite familiar with several concepts in phonology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... . Turns out it was my toaster! I just had no idea it was there in the first

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall ... middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... ’ve decided to remedy that in as overzealous a fashion as possible. I ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  welcome new talent? In a nation of laws, how can we reject students and ... 's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... years, the sleepless nights. Seek joy in your other opportunities, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  -of educational center in his [Tavares's] homeland." I had the great pleasure of ... same refractive index as glass. Even in person, you can only see hints of ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] ABOVE: "How We Make Someone Invisible, 1

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... later], I've already seen them like four times." Ha ha ha how I was wrong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022