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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  , first of all, cuidado! (Be careful!) Because "me gusta" is definitely the ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... Russia in the qualifying rounds of the Eurocup, they taught us Americans

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So why, then ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  byproduct of number 4 is that this semester was the first time we deliberately ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our ... in general, this past semester has been the first semester we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my ... some of my favorite spots in the area! Kendall Square Area 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... apocalyptic event either of us had ever experienced. I knew the auction was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  I need to dew was to trek up into the mountains of Switzerland and see the famous statue of Freddie Mercury built in Montreux, the site of Queen's major recording studio. The statue can be seen on the cover of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  delete the old applications from our database first. Because of some ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  what do I want to do, really? On the Friday of the first week of class, I went to one of the faculty lunches that the First-Year Office ... disappointing when my some of my other friends, who were first-years just like me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... , I will highlight some of my favorite events of the weekend! The Stata ... exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  several renovations. What does the bookshelf of an MIT student look like ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman ... During first semester I published a nice little entry about my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  seem pushy in my first week of work. So how did the conversation with my ... the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I ... to start looking for opportunities outside of the lab. It was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  along the way.   There was the First Church of Christ Scientist and it ... really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  hours worth of arithmetic.   The first graph is a model of the ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... lot of people who seem incredibly skilled got that way by having the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my ... 'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the ... better insight into the exam as a whole..?" You should send us whatever

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  desk, in Foo lounge on the floor Foo, on the first floor of the 290 side ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... experienced by twenty MIT students. After the endless flights, we finally settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... humanities? I wasn't quite sure of the answer myself, so I would respond with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023