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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... Red Sox, but winning is fun and I wanted to have fun. For the first time ... stadium cheered for the red sox as Enmanuel Valdez hit a single with only

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... complete loser who feels really really good for a few hours every day.’ He

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... people threw around went right over my head. I felt too inadequate for ... ) for an interview. By the end of the week, I had a UROP at Choi Lab. It

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... . I was extremely excited for all of these papers, albeit a little ... fulfills for people. It helped explain why people became fans of things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its ... beam made of wood. And while this works often for general calculations

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my ... a wonderful essay about the color blue: “For many years, I have been

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135 ... abbreviation for Reserve Officer Training Corps. It is a training program

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  )-funded program under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) umbrella. It ... "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster ... value for each MSP in the cluster and then have fun comparing them and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with ... in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... school kid for his lunch money. Well, I couldn't stand for that, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... space. And Jones is blunt about the consequences. The quest for ... . That's why we're in the business." "Lowering the flame" For years, high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... 20 high school juniors from small and rural towns nationwide to MIT for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to MBTA stations. If you’re looking for a cafe with delicious food… This is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025