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• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... here. I'm also glad just to know I'm in college getting an education, so ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... working on four different projects, meant to simulate working in the real ... modeling side of transportation, but am excited to delve in.

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... against hippies, really.Every Architecture student at MIT gets introduced to ... around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  distracted than in AP Bio, and I myself more buckled down to memorize details ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the ... each student will get his or her own work space and locker drawers! In

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean ... settled down in Starbucks to do some PSETing. That worked, um, kinda well

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  DND.  In one last attempt to get a hold of her, seeing her Find My ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... .”    “Omg yes. When we get to the door just say you’re a Course 6

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it ... ended up going to school in the same city, and that has markedly changed ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Resources." This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss MIT Academics in general ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a ... if you are struggling due to illness, personal issues, or stress in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... doors to the rooms were open, and the light was streaming in from the ... guess happens when people keep pulling in friends they want to live with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  Boston. You ask about which school it is, and try to get in contact to ... . You're a little wary when you get in the car, but you know what to do ... STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  're going to get unless you took 15.655: Power and Negotiation in MIT's world ... people who cut in line to get into VATICAN CITY. Seriously, what is wrong ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005