Search

Search Results

• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  absolutely no way I was unjamming the door on my own, my host brother climbed ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... new vigor and confidence in learning actual CS things. I'm really proud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  . Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  , usually in the form of rain. The sky broke as though on cue as we finished ... . The rain kept dripping on the three of us. He handed me the balled up ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... applications so I don't have to survive on ramen alone in my first year of grad ... on using tools like fMRI to find out information about the way people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  the streets of London and meet new people and fully immerse myself in ... something known as rush tickets, tickets you can get on the day of the show ... of reflection. I've been spending a lot of time on my own as a symptom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  it's something that's become so ingrained in me because of the way I ... on others that that strips me of my merit as a student and I begin to ... good rest of your week, and happy spring break to my fellow MIT students

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... ensure a steady supply of the oil on which we are so reliant, even as we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... good vibes[/annotation] so I don't show up to the blogs empty-handed while announcing that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2029 will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... passive way, by taking what was given to you instead of understanding your ... batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with ... you left in our office, informing us of this, has made its way to, um ... most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Zoom works. My next event, which was held on Friday, was a part of the ... good 11 chapters of My Immortal, we moved to the "Yale Chad" play, which ... down the street on a skateboard. A lot of prefrosh stayed for the entire

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  else they were very good at bluffing). They had us go up in groups of ... problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  becoming a better person. i've also spent a lot of time feeling on the ... funny, not enough so that the rest of the table can't laugh and move on. I ... find ideas for new ones, though. It's hard to find pictures of hair that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  hundreds of murals that decorated the walls of the oldest dorm on campus, so ... 's Memories of Senior House series (1, 2, 3) on his personal blog. The former head of house really shines a light on what made Senior Haus something to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  favorites on New Year, so get me your entries by midday on this Sunday ... A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  blog about the transfer process. I promise it is on my list of future ... each year. Pia made some typos on her application: "Instead of writing ... writes, "I appeared in TOEFL exam on 31st of December,2004 at INDIA. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  going okay. Not as good as I wanted them to be, but I said I was on top of ... myself in the bottom of a big canyon, lying down on cold sand, staring ... the only way I could tell how deep I was was because of the sunlight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020