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• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... -eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and ... major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the ... Dark Knight. First destination: the Kendall Square T stop at the eastern

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... into the hearts of state schools around the country. What really frightens, what really concerns, all of the other schools is our pistol team

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  wanted to stay in southern California for the sake of my grandfather, out ... tell him it's a competitive school, that the possibility of me getting ... obsessed with optimization of graph colorings or exploring the edges of space

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’m less than ten percent of the way through my journey, and the first hints ... number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... . Here are the notes from the first day. Hour -1: 12:04 PM EST, January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  spirits were a little soured by the first day, which I spent half of filling ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... fun. For the overachievers, there are tons of semi-structured activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of ... spectacular finale not seen since the likes of 4th of July. Days left vs. Awesome. (What's the derivative of awesome?) See, the nice thing about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin ... one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... thought you might want it.” So I got a free cup of coffee. But the coffee

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  experiences with the rest of us upperclassmen. We value you as members of our ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  deposits one on top of the other put there by 2 giant eruptions, the first of ... the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something ... , without notice over the course of years, fuses with your bones, phases

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  real job. The first few weeks on the job were tough. All of my colleagues ... Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... really excited for it at first. the first day of golf class is tomorrow ... overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  you will later regret as you gnaw through the fibrous lump of homework ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating ... Wednesday beheld the night of MIT's annual Integration Bee, the spelling bee

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually ... pin that one of the MIT Flying Club members was wearing... "Whoa, they ... myself to the controls. First thing I noted was that it was different from

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  groundbreaking findings from the first detection of a gravitational wave—the famous ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... like home. I spent the first few days moving my stuff from storage into

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... intention of only completing four. Drop the other five! Maybe you just want

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First ... 't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening ... , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to MIT, I think this would be one of the first choices. There were some ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... , taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008