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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety was breaking. Shouldn’t have had it in the first place, an internal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about ... minutes later, I arrived at Kendall Square. This is the location of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  friends and get ready for the next school year. A lot of first ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  fulfill the beauty standards of my Arkansan childhood. For the first 14 ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of ... also Einstein's birthday) and the imminent constitution of the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all ... journeyed over to the Walker Memorial building where we had our first official

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a ... what every institution needs: a maintainer, one of the people who [annotation note="She was usually the first one in the office and the last one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the hallway, turning around, and seeing people quiet down instead of ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request ... members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... the event coordinators on the progress of each group! It's a good time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... direct to LAX. I spent most of the flight napping and reading back issues of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... slacked off on some other things (courtesy of [annotation note="the grading

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  people in other contexts, including LMC's Battle of the Bands, the ... was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... student at MIT. The design for my first piece A[R]MOUR, modeled by Divya S

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  of the Wall Street Journal (sorry Mitra), Ruth applies the first gentle ... distance of MIT, so that's where we went. On the way, we passed by the MIT ... is the color of a green tea frappucino. Then we celebrated Gemma's un

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  fall I made the mistake of solving problems with my study group without ... other end of the spectrum where I did all of my psets entirely by myself ... need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I ... ’s no longer possible to wing it. The volume of complex information and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  stand by today. or, for another example, i spent the first twenty years of ... they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... of what they did, and then they were placed in the same environment as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and ... , they broke up during her junior year of college. Near the end of her time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  have bridged the transition with a reasonably low rate of psychotic ... the comfort of a thriving campus community, where everyone I know lives ... ease of college life. It's a wonderful luxury to drop the pretenses once

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017