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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…

  

  Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... immigrants, but truly experiencing it (even from the privilege of being on

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

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  . This feeling of utter panic manifested itself on the 6.005 Piazza site ... statement. I've spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm - 2 am) for the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion ... this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two ... to prepare the bamboo structure - Then slipped on the canvas roof

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  hour. CampusFood is especially popular when large numbers of people on a ... you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished stomach). And for those of you who have completed your applications, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  aerospace for less hands-on things: a lot of modeling and CS, some data ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  and discusses a lot of interesting topics on how AIs use maching ... before career fair. and all of this is on top of many hard classes, many ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really ... . [caption id="attachment_115985" align="alignnone" width="2221"] a place of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... whining at me like "what the heck are you doing, you’ve been working on this ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  project we've been working on since this summer. and at one point, one of my ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the ... were utterly confused, now makes sense. and at the end of every semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  few days after my father and said Ruth was crying on some of the worst ... have a video of her I took on my phone trying to get her to say “Abush ... complicated look on his face, of sadness and disappointment. I followed his

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  , which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top 100 playlist? I don't even recognize at least a third of the songs on ... representative of my music taste. My personal judgment of the blogger: depends on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... they are currently working on or to begin research now with the goal of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... Disqus handles that kind of conversation pretty well now, so we can just do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  see that I too have grown. Here are a few things I learned on my own ... overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of ... , I just kept on working and got the grades that I earned. Whew! That

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he ... minutes of glory. After time was up he surprised us all with signed ... first year at MIT has flown by and it's about time I update you guys on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012