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• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  driving back to my hotel, listening to the game on the radio, and they kept talking about Mike Mussina (the Yankee pitcher) and his perfect game through ... just assumed the Red Sox were winning, for no particular reason)) and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  instruments - winners for each game will receive prizes from Goldman Sachs! No ... Clinic for Students! WHEN? Monday (THIS WEEK!), 12/5, 11:30-2:00pm WHERE ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... late. I punted the task of finding a thesis advisor, a task necessary for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  on campus. In March of 2020 I was impatient for REX.  I’m sitting in ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Rodrigo is an MIT senior. He worked in the same office as me for a summer or two. We played rock band in 10-100 together (enough to get rock band ... . Or at least one of the rotating cast of characters who played Tim. Now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the ... ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for the money." This made a pretty big impression on me first semester, and ... if I need it makes me feel secure enough to try for a little longer and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don ... -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... : Science, Technology, and Memoir - this is the other class I'm taking for fun

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for "Kim", who apparently won lots of money and an "academic biography in Who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  immigrated from Mexico, didn't have the money. After she finished high school ... started for Isaac when he was born. ''We know we have the first two years ... years. My husband tells Isaac, 'Even if I have to eat beans for the whole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... 'm spending the summer as an RTA for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  qualifying exams), became a vegetarian, and started training for triathlons ... disguise...kind of) and still have managed not to pull an all-nighter (for ... , I registered for my last class at MIT. Actually, I registered for two

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an hour. I have a friend who's also living in Mountain View for the summer ... means that things are far from each other. For example, a friend was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  . Caroline has a passion for music and playing music. There are plenty of ... MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... tetazooglounge. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  different. Granted, we’ve had this option for the past three semesters and ... .009 Fundamentals of Programming ES.1803 Differential Equations 21M.601 Drawing for ... blogs, for example. But with that said, it definitely was cool to meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... Finding Nemo, and (2) started reading Hunger Games. At some point, I fell ... theater to watch Hunger Games (go watch it - it's awesome!) and finished the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY ... Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006