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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not going home for Thanksgiving first organized it in 2014. Since then, it ... our heads of house and they joined us for dinner with their entire

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  in high school, teenagers at a playground designed for 8-year-olds is ... in the front yard for hours at a time. But I got into MIT, so Sam's Mom ... by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  didn’t want to spoil it for anyone. in my last group therapy session ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  's Universe (although he's been asking for it back. Not that I wanted it in the ... of the housing system. For the past week, I've been sleeping in the ... , grading for the class that convinced me to major in Physics a year ago, not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  HASS-D: Language)Spanish II - in Madrid!HASS Elective, counts for Spanish ... jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes ... this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  got in trouble for this, whoops), and we had full blown Moonbounce BBQ ... from Conner 2 stayed around and bounced for several more hours. In total ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  revolutionary for the era. And in this late-stage-capitalism society, it feels ... If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14.33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we will undertake independent research projects in economics. will have to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , practitioners, and students passionate about social enterprise. In our 17th year ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the top universities in the world. The conference took place on Saturday

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... over topics of conversation for when y’all come to visit in the East ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  United States for about two weeks, whereas I spent all of this summer in ... college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as ... Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006