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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... ’s accent. Where is she supposed to be from? She sounds like she’s trying for ... to hear what our topics will be. German II-Unlike any of my Course 20

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  experience—learning to use accessible restrooms, being carted around by friends, and being unable to go most places on my own. That requires its own blog ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be ... people can end up where they want to be. It all starts with your temporary ... you connect. It would be impossible to categorize each dorm concisely

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  friendship by reducing her life to a sinusoidal function. Proof of Why Katelyn ... -full Linguistics recitation class! At last, I have conquered my life's goal: to be ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  harbors, all I’d be able to see would be the hazy blur of frustration, panic ... , manufactured to be tough and sturdy and to have your tensions and compressions ... think I’m finally sweeping up the pieces, hoping that I’ll be able to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding innovative ways to enhance our strong, entirely need-based financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... as JKim, but this is because by the time you have gone to MIT for three ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... want it to be with my lute. Vieni, let's go to my performance first ... year to be before Christmas (Harvard traditionally has their fall final

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  location forever. You don't really have to be a goth to go to goth night, you ... by passing the information to the proper people and getting the ... there's going to be student art show in the fall to help raise money, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... . ’23[/caption] We talk about what it means to be Filipino, or what it means to be Chinese. We talk about language, and how culture is carried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  brought all the metal over to the shop and Kristen welded the pie rack by ... . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  was going to be my chance to experience a traditional industry CS ... and one letter that has to be included. It gets more fun the more you ... the world that never came to be is collapsing, an invisible weight on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... long way! Before you read any further, I want to emphasize that the ... newsrooms are full of women, all those women are less likely to be in top

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my ... –and also by how the perspective has flipped. Instead of being the undergrad ... you might not be able to tell.) Instead of scrambling to find a research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... (opposite the cork part) is a "stem". It can be pulled all the way out of the ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... write about being miserable. I think people at MIT like to be miserable ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... ideal location to move after graduation would probably be NYC ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  somewhere a long way away. I don't know if this joy will be able to persist ... senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much ... medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  . What a way to end my spring break! As I ate brunch back at Simmons Hall ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... thought I’d have to give up my identity of being a musician in favour of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023