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• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly ... and defenseless as it could get. Weeping because in this incredibly ... to do with myself. Today was a day of different feelings. Hope

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... lined up, and it's good. I have a boyfriend I'm ready to move in with, to ... think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New ... costs and a way to see a child prodigy in action. I’m also a fan of Kilted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... in Cambridge, so I guess that interaction was a success (he got to ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to ... . That's right, it's a website that breaks down Wikipedia page edits by MIT ... a curiosity. Regardless, I thought it'd be fun to share. Happy

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  bite into a lemon to game the feed. There's no algorithmic turn in his ... job that I love, getting to meet —  in person, or via application ... always, eventually, find a way to plant a seed, and watch it blossom. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest bump in the road your wheels shift and you begin swerving to the left or ... up stuck in a place much worse than where you started. you can get all

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  quite a common problem. We do ask you to write in your standardized test ... is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  . Somewhat to my surprise though, despite having a full-time job, I have continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... 'm definitely down! :)" and reserved a ticket. A month later, Google Calendar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  brings the world to your doorstep. You can meet a lot of new people, try ... First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... 't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it well enough." In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  teams that hadn’t yet made a satellite scrambled to get the pieces they ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  /no record, and a friend convinced me to take abstract algebra. in hindsight I ... to college, but pursuing a Ph.D. was a whole other issue. I grew up in ... college with employable credentials and get a job. to be very clear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  completed his thesis earned and a doctorate in Chemistry. If you're coming to MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5 ... possible to get degrees in two courses at MIT in just your undergrad years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... in the little leagues. I was the only one to make 3 words in a single ... earned in turns where a single word was formed to turns where more than one

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  train ride to Sondrio, a small valley town in the Alps, about 30km from ... , and a few even expressed interest in MIT. In addition to my pitch on MIT ... drowning in a mountain of code and robot parts (more to come about this soon

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... man read in a very distinct voice quite a pertinent and touching reply

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  Spring with your housemates in a pristine, remote locale untouched by the ... . Provincetown in the dark was a stunning approximation to the iconical New England ... with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010