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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  for not finishing projects. Post-sophomore year, I spent the summer ... resulting fear that it's not that I don't have the time to finish projects ... , improving methods. I've realized that THIS stage is the real test of whether I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours right before were full -- packing, friends, watching the sunrise, goodbyes ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  like in the past two years, but yeah. you're right, sorry. it's not ... we’re halfway through the semester. november always feels like the point where the new-semester excitement wears off. there's something about

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  happens every other year and is attended by admissions people from the 8 Ivy ... think Ben & Jerry's is good when you eat it out of the pint, but that ... my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... made me realize that nothing is unusual either. There is not much to say ... ’s a dining room, the chairs are not meant to be sat in for longer than

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... repeatedly compares the angles and lines of objects in real life to what is ... .  the butterfly effect I had to mention this. The Butterfly Effect is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  interviewer was last Friday*. This is NOT the deadline to have your interview ... craziness with natural disasters this year (which impacted the testing), not ... ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  , one of the perks of running is the spontaneous discovery of nice study ... Youtube and a deep fryer. Granted that this was not the most efficient or ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... into the world! Look how beautiful it is! Plus, I know how much I learned ... -year housing makes this so easy). But my advisor is the one who can tell me, "I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the anchor!! So now it’s [annotation note="for the record, I'm not ... . And the movie sucked! It was so boring! Hamlet is a boring movie!! It ... but today. They have good shakes and the rest of the food is pretty mid

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower ... the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  not like at sunset, and sharp shadows came out, not at all like the soft ... this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  campus and college. The following is an unordered list of some of our top ... achievements, setbacks, laughs, cries, revelations, and advice of not just the ... something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best ... , these are not the "right" answers, but rather some insight into how we ... non-scholastic, don't worry. As I said above, these are not the "right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... was today, by the way, and this morning's run went just as well, if not ... This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank ... dyed hair, peer pressure makes the trend spread around. Everyone here is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first, faithful readers. Actually, I think the task is to "have a letter to the ... than Pluto that seems to be orbiting the sun. NASA is currently debating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  closest to you, with the brown hair. That's Davie. Davie is a junior from ... Gilbert and Sullivan - and the chamber chorus, which is a class that runs ... are into the humanities in French House!" This is Elizabeth, a freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  who knows. Like is it winter or is it not? ----------- Side note ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak approached Boston South Station, I spotted snow on the tracks! As I stepped

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  region, and not just the big cities. Then, sometime over the summer, I ... . GTL (Global Teaching Labs) is the specific program that I was going to ... that would fit in the span of 10 or so days is a difficult task

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023