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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... the usual chitchat and pamphlets. My dad dropped me off at the venue, and right away, I spot my friend and her classmates from her new school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... pretty empty, and partially because there was never anyone waiting at my ... work, and the main reason I found myself on said bus was because there

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to ... between you and me is about 10^-7 newtons. Let's be friends!" Okay, no ... , and Flows in Biological Systems. Mainly I am learning that I am not so

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

   usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove ... over my shoulder to see what I was reading.  "And weren't we going to ... coffee table. And then I remembered the bulletin boards in the Infinite

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking about lab and about how these past few weeks in Bhatia Lab have taught me about more than fibroblasts and the hepatitis C virus. From lab, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... , the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the ... MITWE or MITSO, since Techiya was the only singing group, and I figured I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  . AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know, installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it ... CAD, Rhinoceros, 3D-Max and soon to come vray and wufi. I am so distressed for my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him ... were efficiently scanned, and we were all ushered into the auditorium. Ranjeetha '13 and I managed to snag some pretty awesome seats, just behind the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  time and had a beautiful garden. But the most exciting thing about being ... Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer all the questions my mother and I had about MIT. It was an afternoon

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  its very own radio station, run by the students for the students (and ... places I visited during my CPW, and I encourage you all to visit it as well ... to get involved with the radio station and have my very own show—and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  this morning, when my alarm rang, and several moments later, my suite ... ." Chris S: "My finals and I can write a bad romance." Hamsika: "Finals week so far is a bittersweet concoction of wonderfully free food and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  , solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... found the project interesting and meaningful. As an Intern in the Green

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and ... Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  , pickup trucks, parents, boxes, and luggage. All of these are for the people ... done and it was a wild ride. Like any wild ride it had its ups and downs ... year was awesome and I loved it. You will too. Don't worry. Feel better

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be enjoying my first day off in quite awhile, and my blogging should return

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  keep working on those puzzles that Snively and Brian posted—we still don ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are ... they're doing, whether they've slept, and when they're hitting their

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... couple of days, and it's time to take a break. As you wrap up your remaining applications and send in those missing pieces of paperwork, start

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  sisterhood and the chanting and singing and oh god, the chanting and singing, I ... of sororities on everything I'd seen and heard of those in other ... and time constraints. I did, however, realize that MIT's sororities are

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

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and ... . Not only does she love the riveting storylines and character development ... , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  Harbor, and who knows what else. Heck, I didn't even have time to call Sam ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3 classes, and a GIR). You'd assume that at MIT I could register for classes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006