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• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... allow people I didn’t even know affect my experience in Hyderabad. It seems fairly obvious, and in most ways in my usual life it was, but I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... can imagine, this was super unsustainable. It was the first time that I ... realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it ... . In high school (and middle school, and elementary... and college), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in ... train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  Nearly fourteen years after graduating, I still wear my Brass Rat every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but ... planned). I think you can call next week as well. The number to call is 617 ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... in my room, but I need to attend to that this weekend. I like to see

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this ... . There are no words that can possibly describe the insanity I encountered ... -nine celsius, if you're so inclined.) When I landed in Boston, it was anything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things ... far fewer Filipino, White, and Black families in my community. I ... guess it all really started in middle school. I was doing well in my

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in August and completely fell in love with it, I wouldn't have even applied

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in ... *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... hollered, the response felt more sincere than any applause I've heard in ... * reading of a work in progress. *I choose the word 'devastating' because

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... with Silly Names -Hairy Ball Theorem You can probably guess which one I ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music ... can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of ... want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can ... material interesting. I was, in fact, much more interested in my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... , you can speed down Memorial Drive to Walker in maybe three minutes, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020