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• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have ... was already othered. I didn't want to further box myself in by joining ... afraid to write about things and I don't really care if I get shit for it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ...er...girl): It's always dangerous, non-productive or you get lied to when you ask a ... . Even in retold fairy tales, people get amazing feats done by being clever ... more beneficial to the audience. You maximize your time and don't get as

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also ... kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... the role of 'generally older person'). I'm going to have to "get it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... advising options for freshmen, and it's very easy to get overwhelmed among

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT, not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  spending long nights at your desk wondering how the heck we're going to get ... to get there. Like carlosh said, it's definitely made me better at ... was a chance to really explore my creative side by using my technical

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... basically I'm getting paid to travel around Europe and interview MIT interns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work ... , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... bit, as we all get ready for the day. … After my first class, I meet up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and ... to attend.   The evening started off by meeting Stacy De ... experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen by up to 10 different people. Finally, the Dean herself reviews every ... ? ------------------------------------- Danish wrote: "I want to improve my scores by retaking the tests but I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a funky-looking dorm is that I can always find my way back to it by ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done ... to spend on whatever we want – all funded by Simmons house funds, of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... be able to assemble yourself and write? by Frances Stark, photo from ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter ... campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the writing team decides to do, not by hunters’ willingness to do them. And so

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , which mostly everyone went to, as evidenced by this picture: There was ... , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... By Pamela Ban ('12?) I had eagerly awaited CPW, and it was heaven

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008