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• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  during any project. You begin in a sort of honeymoon phase, and then you ... 've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  didn't have any of that." On most afternoons, Cristen plunked down in ... through Union Square Park, you probably noticed Belinda and Joey. On most ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter ... large number of sustainable livelihoods, including for the rural poor and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get ... dozen places you’ve never seen before and be home for dark. And then ... streets in twilight, and back home in the dark. [carousel image1

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the number of trees I saw, and the only constraint was the location of Blue ... calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  fallbacks of depending too much. I learned to be happier on my own, and ... empathy political polarization and the rise of discourse focused on making ... of some beautiful ideas, I settled into my life at MIT and now have a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  placed me firmly on the “work” side of the work-life balance. And I will ... smooth, balanced, and without any of the monkfish’s [annotation note ... and extends. On the surface, this seems to contradict many of the food

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  and the phrase "completely crazy", but in my week visit back home, on ... Program), and the adjustment back to home life has been, as usual, greater ... for you, and has a zero percent chance of coming with the bitter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to ... a home and less like a temporary stop along the way. But another ... on steroids), tennis tournaments, and math competitions. I'm back in my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ! Fukuzawa Yukichi is known as the “Voltaire of the East,” and is still on the ... : more on excitement and home at MIT from current (no longer) frosh ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  live at MIT and have a taste of independence. After returning home and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on ... home, and has been since i came here, and i've thought of it as home, and ... myself that is magically happy? no amount of therapy will ever make any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  started writing this on the plane home for spring break and never got around ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... , you", and this is one of those times. WELL PLANNED, YOU.] Change - it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the ... the work of the textbook and the work of the imagination. Too many times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid ... finally, move on to the base. The basic sketch and extrude/solid of my base ... struggling for a bit too long to make the base of my lamp, I gave up on it and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  , including changes to grading policies and procedures, cancellations of activities and exams, and more, because of COVID or any other disaster or ... disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  hyperpartisan rhetoric about the threat of a nuclear Iran. And a lot of that ... being too soft on Iran.  Yadda yadda yadda. And if you've been watching ... officials, and has testified in front of the Senate--and talked about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Student Profiles from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... projects intersect with each other and connect with the central themes of urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... . The girls on my team are some of my best friends and I know they will be ... part of a team, and getting out on the water every morning helps me de

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010