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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP ... on campus, and scoring free swag (Woo! Free Swag!). Of course, the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to ... ="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the ... chicken coop in the wooded area of our backyard. My parents have always

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... asking for the two letters of recommendation, cause I felt intimidated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other ... poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of ... camp. The remainder of the money we raise is used to cover counselor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of the First Year site.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate status. “The courses are cerebral,’’ said Carrie Sampson Moore, director ... undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... people didn’t even know  that I was going through something. The thought of

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the ... playwright, who was piling boxes into the back of a truck. I asked him how it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  resolution this year. -- It’s 2014! 2013 was the year of Wrecking Ball, What Does the Fox Say, the premiere of the Class of 2017, the finale of the class of 2013, the government shutdown, and a host of millions of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... of the most vaguely negated sentences ever or what?), but this one was ... the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club ... speech turned out to be excellent, delving into the nature of reality, mass

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

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  of the history behind MIT was surprisingly interesting, mostly because famous hacks were mentioned. Hacks are the absolute best part of the culture. I must disagree with the shirt and way that there are two kinds of

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold ... of there like a shot. Being adventurous and exploring the outskirts of ... , I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move ... Solution: Just make your own kitchen? I woke up to the noise of Raymond

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... . They've also been installing new Ethernet jacks in all of the rooms -- at ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film ... until Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (have you seen the teaser trailer yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022