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• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  creeping over the steeple of the church as I arrive at school. 4. I will ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  even more eventful day. I went to talk to two groups of high school ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... second. Certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge ... like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Anonymous asked, For the most part is there an over sense of community, school ... matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  about my music knowledge that all happened at the end of high school ... when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . at the end of high school — and honestly, for the majority of my life ... it was. having mit as my dream school, going through the process of ... this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  magic outside of the privileged magical school system. The Magician ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  school were children of engineers. My dad is a carpenter and my mother is a teacher's aide in an elementary school. If one or more of your parents is an ... 's what I spent my junior year of high school doing- trying desperately to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!”  Next

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was ... essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  ; Spending Money You already took care of your school supplies and went back ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014