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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  afterwards). I've been sunburned twice, and I can now use my watch tan to tell ... I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  2023. It feels weird and maybe self-serving to say like "You might know ... and bad. My goal was to make it more like journal entries and stamped ... , the fear - everything. It's incredibly humbling. As I prepared to write

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  about the retreat's theme to display there. Every year it's a big creative ... engineer! I used to bring my engineering homework to youth group...ha). I was ... really need to go get caught up on work so I can have fun this weekend

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  … drive quickly but cautiously under the speed limit) home to check my ... day when we were supposed to receive the letters. It turns out that ... self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  exam. By noon, I was bored with the GRE practice exam, and decided to use ... minutes or so to shield my book and get rained on. Then it was time. I ... train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  summer doesn’t sing to me anymore (although I really think it does), I can ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... ago, to go to MIT. I was struck by the fact that it would be waiting for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an ... are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... -one-rs, get it"]b1ners[/annotation] dropping by. Without further ado, here are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because ... commenting. Substance! Give it to us! Tell us stories!) -Discover new music. Once you've done so, get all statistics-happy about it. -Learn to knit

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... source?"]stole it from him.[/annotation] Can you [annotation note ... ?[/annotation] I mean, MIT is objectively great. Now that’s not to say it’s perfect

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  , it’s an incredible thing to do. So yes, I can’t wait to share with you ... find three programs that allowed me to travel for 1-3 months and I can ... to see them going on to college and pursue that love. It's the MIT

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... palpable, and the best part is that I have the time to savor it. I have the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... interestingly organic that way. I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to ... One year ago, I lost my first stickered bottle. 😔 Pretty sure it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  hammer home the point of how blogs can be used to build a community, we ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the ... schedule, or the work that needs to get done, but it does mean I never have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we ... something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or ... each other. I've been inspired by this statement since I got to MIT. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  " trip this weekend because, well, it didn't look like there was going to ... !) so there's no way I can sneak off to the mountains for a few runs ... All around North America, it's been a pretty snowless winter. Some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  artwork above your bed, taking a deep breath, and using all those lemons to ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... happen, and at this point there's nothing you can do to change it. Mika ... .. my mistake. I suck. Thanks to those who pointed it out to me) muscles

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  would be blasphemous to call a Welsh entity English, but using the ... Airport bc I forgot to take it out of my carryon :([/caption] As things ... before. Okay, I could just speed learn it before I had to teach it. But the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023