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• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... operating as a remote community. Even though your first semester at MIT will

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily ... move out. by friday, when i left, 2 east was a ghost town, stripped and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... , this is a tradition that has been going on since 1969! So how does it ... Program exhibition.   Yes, that does seem to be a photograph of a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ...  on-site with a sense of magical excitement. The author himself would sign it ... adorned the ends of the decorative spires. Over the altar, a chandelier

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  beat, and a high-pitched beep every two seconds. My sheets were warm and ... and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look. As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that the word "football" means a sport played neither with feet nor anything resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... has a bookstore, most named something like this: ~> The Cornell ... an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... 's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Greg, a bit exasperated after confronting an erstwhile chicken meal ... 's a math recitation. Eh, I can't understand that guy's accent anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It's a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at ... anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... about you as a result of reading your essay? Student:  I'm not sure. Me

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... para prepararme para el examen de certificación de CompTIA A + y clases ... , pero a mitad de costo. Mi computadora portátil me sirvió bastante bien

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015