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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half-baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every ... phone was at 3% battery. The man behind the counter moved to cut me a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama ... ).   5. Nothing to blag about Yes, I know it doesn’t make sense. Neither

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Institute making sure we at least take two hours off a week to go soft brain ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan ... . Aside from the cabrito, I didn't really get a chance to have some ... because I'm in a spaghetti-type junction, so it starts going crazy trying to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... entire savings to make bail after being taken in for “looking suspicious ... enough. I cannot look at a black kid and think to myself, you are going to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... sometimes frivolous and a grand old time. We walked to JP Licks and got one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... CPW events to give incoming students a taste of their unique brand of ... . Those who fell below a certain threshold would have to eat a sardine (a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... listened to salsa drifting over from a neighboring restaurant and watched

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... . Boston is a shower of sparkles that perpetually feels as if it ought to ... thoroughly, truly, entirely, achingly alive.   As a freshman, I began to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... years, and he realized that it is time to pick a successor. He gathered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  before heading to the living room. Kate's there too, writing something on a ... next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... to the living room to grab my laptop before going upstairs to take a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  . I really want to make a second part for this post if I get the chance. ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... a thing. As much as it's inspiring to be around the latest research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... , about a month after coming to MIT, my friend Hanna '10 and I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to make the world a ... part of this community, we can no longer just want to make the world a ... equipped, and obliged, to make a critical difference: to do the analysis, to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  .  Lunch is where people make friends right? So, we made a plan to sit with ... 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

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... reading, Hope to see you there, Good luck with finals and have a happy ... -off linked to a form that just contained a feelsbox. It’s almost the weekend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023