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• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  've happened. Take care of yourself first. These are some things I now know to ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

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

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  Iis post was first published on Rachel's Incredible Italian ... ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first ... above. But last month, I got to visit for the first time since high school ... have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  first few weeks. Most first lectures tend to be fairly dull.  Pass out ... ?  Our first homework assignment was to write our thoughts about product ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to college with both a laptop and a desktop, but my first laptop was a tad old ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  colleges, you are welcome to apply to MIT using your QuestBridge application ... Bridge Non-participating Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Early Action or ... . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  , impressionable students training diligently to become Pokemon masters. Never was ... vector is “something that has intrinsic pointiness.” (This also happens to ... students are people just like you and me, except that they like to talk about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  happened on episode 6 to happen... but the first five eps were good =D) Hi My ... giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  first weekend of February, and bear witness to what happens when a few ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining ... . It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  first mission and bump our score up to 8 or maybe even 9 laps. Given our ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... I really had no idea what to expect. During our first day in the ... this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016