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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a ... eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto ... applies to the lab, too.) "Just do it" was difficult to implement during ... a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... could not bring myself to do anything that would require thought over ... Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  parties and not a lot of homework-doing in the evening, so you will probably ... you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  do is to leave you with a few pictures. Anyhow, thanks for reading ... , Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  " because Emma is a doer. She is known to do what she puts her mind to. That ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them. emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing ... (Educational Counselors, MIT alumni/ae who do the interviewing), we Waived your ... worries. N or [blank]: You did Not do an interview. Yes, you may have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  'm still not sure what to do after. Count the days? ) I've never been a ... , in these two and a half months. Am I editing the way I want? Where do ... to do that while writing 2000 words a day or reading 12 books. I did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... starvation in ways that do not involve the Ben Salinas Delight (last Wed. night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it ... communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  years ago- but the website has thankfully undergone a dramatic improvement in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  do your best within some existing system, you’re trying to design a ... guess I’ve been doing some writing on the blogs. Just a little bit. I ... This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  and started doing a terrible but energetic jig right there.) Hi there ... bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... that i am biased because i have just been hearing about the cube a lot ... . a couple moments later, Jett hands me the cube and asks if i know what

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the event this week, your local club might also be organizing a Summer Send ...  CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) if you have the opportunity to do so. Meet you local MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013