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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  - couldn't be a better location. Also the fact that Boston is such a young ... , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I ... of October, and the semester is in full swing. I still have most of the ... already. I was working hunched over like a little goblin in a cave with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• 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 ... Karkal, Kushal's program director in Bangalore, and I was treated like a ... health and medicine. I programmed in MS-Access a patient information system

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  ", she said, in a voice that many have commented is creepily similar to my ... is just as valuable as having the practical skills entailed in that ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  the ball at a certain point in its trajectory. This really isn't hard ... interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until ... group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the ... one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography ... his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... join their ____ club. Issue #3: With over 500 events in a single weekend ... trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great ... tour an MRI lab and take a look at the psychology in movies like "I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... develop a strategy. After the first two satellites were made in the ... a giant bag of candy. The important thing about ELLs is that, even

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am placing a statement in parentheses here because there's one in or after

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  controllable - it's a process that you barely realize is happening. Growth comes in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the ... ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... the suburbia that is kirkland, because i think it would've been a lot ... ="ideally a city, and seattle is quite nice -- i'm concerned about when it's not

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , who worked in hong kong at the time. a balikbayan box is quite literally ... kuya, as in "kuya cj". malamig ba diyan? is it cold there? the philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO ... I spent four days in pure agony before seeing a dentist and finding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the archives!" Boo hoo. I've read and tagged them all in four days. Don't be a ... the year.   Seminar advising. A freshman seminar is a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... . It’s a snow angel! Like in the movies! I’d only ever seen snow angels ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  is a gesture that shows you appreciate someone in your life :') 5 ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very ... my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023