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• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  institutional goals and mission. That being said, if what one wants to send doesn ... changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... have to commend the ingenuity and innovative spirit that enables

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  friends from high school and from the Institute, my old coworkers and employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  department, you apply to the university as a whole and then choose your ... Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole ... ordered a $288 Chinese New Year party platter in the Singapore Cafe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  is the universe’s way of telling me that I should stop trying and just ... out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... Whisky Tasting Seminar, In Vino Veritas, and Thirsty Ear Beer Connoisseur Class (all with legal age and ID's as prerequisites of course). Also with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  overwhelming that I essentially gave up and ranked the dorms by seemingly ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... Altstadt (Old Town) and the 14th century Landgrave Castle. Then I'll pass the train station, cross the Lahn river, and enter a building across the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  level, salaries and working conditions are even more dismal. Students at elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20 ... this new era where communication occurs rapidly and information is only a

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  the country and leave you stranded in a city you do not know in a state ... holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in ... platform that allowed students all over the world to access Institute course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017