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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... that has since extended to maybe three) more years at the Institvte. If ... , Brazil and Argentina. If you look back at my blogging archives, you’ll see

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  West Coast-ers and international students take note: when it snows in ... alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... - at least at Next House - each have a thermostat. Hypothermia isn't an

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM ... at sunrise, the groggy skyline gulping down cold milky skies frothed ... astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... to look at a design and be like, “I made that. And it will change ... MechE is that I would likely use it for biology or international

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... . Before taking a second look at the campus, before getting my financial aid ... marvel at the sheer impossibility that I picked the right college without

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... :) ). Oh, and this was at the Silk Road Ensemble Concert this last Sunday at ... wow...such a good movie. (btw, I spend at least one hour every night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry ... MUN (international conference) - March (during spring break), Puebla, Mexico BosMUN (a ... declare sophomore standing. So what is "sophomore standing" at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second ... probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... “crusty’ seniors, my classmates and I are at a point where we have to make a

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

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  camera monitors. Yeah, try that at home. (Actually, you can. They tell you ... plan - a critical look at all of our publications and the web site ... submit it to HR (it always takes me forever - I'm not good at writing about

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  headed out and looked at the tunnel system (MIT has tunnels that connect ... day). Disconcertingly, there was nobody else down there at the time. I ... going to be the new trend in blogging. Thursday: Woke up at 8:30 AM to the

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

  Some summer pictures

  

  with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern ... that area is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  was also a chance to see brothers of the house at their best. Lots of ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at ... thousand pages with fiction over a five-year timespan. This deluge of need

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  students taking their own lives at MIT and places like it, the causes -- to ... also come in part from two heavily publicized deaths at MIT nearly ten years ago; most suicides at colleges are not heavily publicized. (See also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  the day before I was supposed to leave was COVID"]international pandemic ... international icons and forever-important historical figures literally slept in ... to eat dinner at Ling Ling, which, as much as I hate to admit, was a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  , I’ve found that timing is everything.  Being in the right place, at ... behavior, at least try to be a little patient with them now, and even indulge ... even more money!  So, find someone who is on the same page as you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  a dress rehearsal. Still, we had one more excursion at the Cultural Centre of the Peoples of the Amazon before then. At the Cultural Center ... event on someone’s phone, which you can watch on MITWE's Facebook page

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate ... programming in it. At least I have it on PE/NE, so hopefully I won't actually ... afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... people don't meet their best friends until their sophomore year. At the ... 't make many close friends. Instead, the friends I made at the time taught

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... needs to be something substantial. Not "look, we got Killer Mike at MIT. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... arts at MIT or eating desserts at MIT) : it's difficult to approach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009