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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34-101. I was moving quickly down the hall last Thursday, not paying attention to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  " crammed into four suitcases. I quickly discovered that MIT and Baker House ... prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in ... to visit the campus. Alumni Leadership Conference, Campus Preview

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  language. I used a voice unlike the way I spoke day to day. I tried to make ... make my points clearly, to entertain. But that was the whole of it. I ... the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a number related to your credit history, which is something that people like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  this letter, sent last week to the MIT community by Chancellor Cynthia ... states: MIT is committed to making every effort to ensure, within the ... 's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , more students are applying to MIT every year - which makes me extra happy ... by applying to MIT Early. If you want to apply to us Early, then great ... things that arrive today to not appear on the tracker for another week or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  're thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was sweating, feverish, started growing tumors, lost my ability to speak, and almost died for the three weeks leading up to decisions. March 15th was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , stranger! By this point, it was raining, so I suggested that we go to the ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  already a given. I clung to every point, fueled by my ever-brewing anger at ... , to satisfy him. So I let him do what he wanted; when he held me down by ... piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  —e.g. making it to a part of a problem that I couldn’t reach last time, even if ... I’m reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and really ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  ask the pilot for a picture. Andrew said he would, too, to make it less ... Today I flew back to campus! I returned earlier that most students because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  ) effecting Institute-wide support services to students by maintaining formal ... Faculty; (b) modifying policies pertinent to student life and making ... semester, I was invited by a former professor to be the Undergraduate

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ...   To the things that other people say to me when they probably meant

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... helped me lug everything up to that room. I’ll end this post by saying ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  and most photogenic Golden Retriever on the planet. We had to stop by ... by this store. Good people/dogs. i) We booked it back to campus to ... things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  so much to be done. That drive to achieve and make the most of any ... things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one ... by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free Garbage concert. Well, first, you have to hear about my morning. I got to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  to make all of our 6am flights, despite battling some severe winter ... is a good D-lab intro that links to more D-labbers. + ??? mi Make your ... 27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  go to lecture, and having a good lecturer is basically what makes or ... think that’s going to make the class a lot easier for me. 6.0001 - Intro ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  -humored kvetchfest by remarking that I have nothing to complain about and that it took ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009