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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... waiting for them: i muted keywords like "mit" or "decisions" from my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  ’s a skill you will have to use for the rest of your life. And I know ... I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  ! Fun fact! I'm buying a real-person camera soon, so no more blurry phone ... sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  town. I am very aware that I come from a place where the only thing you ... , almost ritualistically. I will buy a bag of jellybeans from the Walmart ... am too old for this now.  There’s a fragment of something from

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  where people are talking about things I have no idea about, because I can ... MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  . I didn't buy anything. But I overheard a couple, where the guy was ... Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... for a littl ebit which was pleasant i guess. But you know whatisn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome. And here's where I learned what it meant to suffer from a language ... laundry, change currency, buy travel books, and sleep. After a pizza lunch ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a ... some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  I saw the Milky Way for the first time a couple of summers ago, I ... . The fact is: there are a lot of really cool things you can study here. I ... the list, unless I took a class in it and decided that it wasn't for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . Eligibility for FWS is based on need. Money earned from a FWS job is not counted ... you a new car for $99.00 down and $99.00 per month. If you were buying a ... community service per semester can make for a rough transition to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... something. So she pulled him aside, at a house party I think, and said, "Do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  " for your major. I discourage underclassmen from choosing internships ... Frankfurt. I was looking for a lively, yet typically German, location with ... consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany

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

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  -like college here] where everyone's competing for A's all the time and i get to ... end, I've learned a bit, and I can tell they're really passionate about ... science and philosophy, there has never been a world where you can easily

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell you what a relief it is to be where we are. I recently revised the ... Browsing Matt's blog reminded me that I have a blogiversary on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking them now. Unfortunately, since I travel around every day with a personal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  ) If you’re willing to make the trek, you can buy produce for a huge ... where you can buy groceries from local farmers and get them delivered to ... On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  for myself. a friend i talked to about my dreams thinks it's neither ... of myself as a very trusting person. i like to think of myself as ... the pools. i remember milling around the locker room waiting for eleven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  , because I am a short human being, lunch can also be dinner if I buy ... cook a big batch of food Friday night so that I can eat it all weekend ... 'll get a cheap burrito bowl, and on Thursday I'll spring for poke or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam ... ones with a negligible price difference from the Coop. Particularly for ... students are a level up from domestic students( I am considered domestic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  years after my high school and worked for a year.can I apply to mit.i ... anyway. coming from another college, can i still apply for regular freshman ... from a good university to fulfill my quest for knowledge and get a good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006