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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really ... never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  "] Gandalf's mark on Bilbo's door[/caption] also known as the inciting incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  about interviews, especially as an admissions officer on the EC team and someone who has experienced the EC interview both as an applicant and an EC ... In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  looking at the stars til later   mid-September. honor me, honor me ... begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the ... the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the ... , but my feet do step step step. one step less than i should have. the next

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title ... oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean Kelley. Though I am not allowed to share details about the film itself (no

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  last fall semester asleep. I tracked my sleep patterns from the first day of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... I dropped your phone in the toilet. Sorry…. But not really.” Now ... definitions of the word. However, you know what I mean. They are simply people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing ... recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... , and sat down cross-legged on the carpet. I pulled out loose papers ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  on January 1, making the MIT Regular Action deadline 5 hours away. For ... until the last minute. If you have technical problems with the Part 1, let ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as ... . (Inexplicably, the other one was Web Design instead of Wikipedia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to ... consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In particular ... not to attend the Ebony Affair program mostly because I wasn’t sure what ... -frosh undecided on whether they’ll attend to highlight what the weekend encompasses

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025