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• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  There is a small rock in my shoe. In Fall 2016, University of Missouri ... wrote when I shared that post on social media: "In Colorado, we only had farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel ... put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; You may log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... . They even help with study abroad options. In addition, there's also ... pre-select you for an interview which are typically held in the Career

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the first person in their families to go to college, their university ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... country in Idaho, Chris Peterson was witnessing a total solar eclipse ... .   Danny B.D. '15 and his dad, at a rest stop in Wyoming, built a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  from Bentley University and started an Indiegogo campaign to feed 100 homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless shelter to donate the proceeds to and, in less than two weeks, enough

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  : being in college will be a wonderful experience, no matter what university you finally choose. And I mean that with all my heart. But in the long ... discover a whole new territory. Make your mark in whatever way you can - on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  in the pre-mailing tasks. The letters have been printed (I held the stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... ). The folks downstairs in the records room were simultaneously working on

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... coffee (coffee grown in Yemen or Harrar region of Ethiopia) knows the first

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  city planning. In the last 2 years alone, 110 A&P interns, including ... architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  universities in the region have been seriously damaged." Offices around the ... all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I ... first trip in India and he handed me Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... of inefficient breathing. Inhale: one exam in quantum mechanics, three ... ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

    Last week, MISTI-China interns in Beijing welcomed ... in the Peking Duck - Beijing's most famous dish. Over dinner, we discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where ... enjoy being a "Greek chorus" in relativity with Feli, aggressive nodding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... the dinosaurs). After fighting two world wars over it, in 1946, the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... character in the picture is a modification of the 'Masked Rider' who was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  (adcoms from colleges and universities, GC's from high schools, independent ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005