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• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family and celebrations usually last for the entire day and are structured ... message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the ... room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a well-earned, relaxing weekend after working for 12 days in a row. New

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  worked in construction, structural steel, for thirty years — in many ... train, read some Neil Gaiman, and got off in Killarney. I fumbled for a ... , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... /songs, feel free to drop them in the comments below for other folks reading the ... We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... bakery called Bova's in the [annotation note="Boston's Little Italy ... to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  were in the kitchen trying to make this for like five hours total. It ... only kept it in the oven for a bit. So yeah, we probably will never make ... , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... office held a Thanksgiving Dinner for us! All of the MIT students were

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... me blabbering on in plain text for pages. Sorry about that. Something ... , died in the earthquake. They were married for sixty-five years, and it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in ... that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... Institut Curie. I spent my time at Curie in a few projects. For my main

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  spring in time for that (or at least hosted an equivalent event). Because ... their own. In two weeks, I’ll be back for dorm-made rollercoaster ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering that happens ... entries must be in English. (Note: Winners will be announced at the Fair

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . 12 units of 21G.704 (Spanish IV): I took Spanish for four years in high ... 're just preparing for judging in a few months, but right now we're working ... . These, I think, are hard for me in normal circumstances, but are probably

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... be here. I’m grateful for my RA and the folks in the airline who did ... to events even though I’ll be gone in a handful of months. And for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  eight hours of work per day and was in the office for meetings. As long as ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... of money for my education, and the least I could do was try to pay for ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  , women account for about 27% of undergraduate students in computer science ... say that there isn't room for improvement at MIT and in the greater ... arts. Your engineering friends, for the most part, will stay with you in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... kicked out in March, our[annotation note="which we use all year round for ... -rhymes. For example, in “One Art”, “to travel. None of these will bring disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005