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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  the MIT populace as a whole, but I have some amount of work to do - or to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  and the places that made you yourself. MIT wants to create a team (proof ... the intention to burn us to a cinder.” It’s a little too much, right ... has a rhythm to it. Sentences vary in length. Some are short, especially

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice ... essay still entirely optional? By that I mean do you see a trend where you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , a cover letter by Reif himself. Why had MIT gone to such lengths to ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  After getting the chicks, my parents set to work building a pretty massive ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first

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

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... was just… there.  during winter break, i went to new york city for a ... at MIT and coming back, i would come to a constant.  during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is ... we will try to admit students who represent a broad range of experiences and countries. You can get a sense of our current international (and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... quiet. We by no means wanted to see any of our peers outside of our school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  loved by. This extends to all of M3! We're all a little different. We look ... , planned largely by our friend Aleks (a.k.a Garbuz). The Threeks all went to ... “Fireflies” by Owl City. However, I could not bring myself to perform such a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  felt that restless urge to study the lines of a ship and the blushes and ... ,[/annotation] but one week before a friend’s birthday, I decided it was time to pick ... a crochet hook, [annotation note="it will eventually grow to a dozen

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... : as if someone was shaking me by the shoulders, urging me never to take ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their own worlds. 3 More than all of this, solo adventures are a way to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  open the window by epsilon” Translation: “I’m going to open the window a ... , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a ... . It gets much worse. However, as the token non-math person of a very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... way I want to change the world!) :D But first I need to a Master

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which ... wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of ... green tram aaaaand nighttime colosseum   Glad to have a new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. I sent ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013