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• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  , I commuted two hours away to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ... my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  couldn't find me, so I had a nice half hour to reflect about choices ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... deleted every piece of media I'd ever uploaded to the blogs. The big wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  magic formula to engineer most of life’s important outcomes.  Sure, you ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  a brief for the importance of attending to thoughts principally ... , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  the most important choice of all. You have to find a way to let go of ... , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... going wrong—I try my best to sit down, contemplate, and then write until I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  importance of fostering personal ties and building community."]move to add more ... considers peace and quiet to be of paramount importance. Most importantly ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  pendants and rings. Through DesignPlus, I also get 24 hour access to its ... of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  don't have enough time to train 6 hours a day, 6 days a week like my ... training as I can. Some days when I can't make the hour round-trip commute to ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  microeconomics to answer important policy questions such as government response to ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to manage my time. It takes over 20 hours a week and you can only do ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  pushing myself to spend countless hours studying for a test that truth be ... hours, independent time devoted to studying, that is really at the student ... never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  me that I was welcome to join various MAGfest parties. Half an hour ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  important to my future well-being—which they were, in actuality—thereby giving ... —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... , dedicated to providing professional and academic opportunities and resources

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  important to me, as well, to be able to share and bond through stories of ... my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your ... email, but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to the Midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010