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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of ... to enjoy fresh fruit new years fireworks go off in the distance as we stand on the terrace to take it all in playing with sparklers in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... residents. These reasons are, I imagine, pretty much the same as anyone else’s--to ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  most recognized rings in the world but also pretty much the single item ... to do is find the money to pay for one: Sigh...it's so worth it ... filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... ! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose ... . Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  eventually felt that engineering was what I would want to major in the most. It ... can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... ."]physics?[/annotation]These seemed like the most likely trajectories. But over time, these seemed to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and ... ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... dogs, hamburgers, and chicken burgers to the mostly MIT crowd there

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is ... which stories resonate the most. This is an introspective journey. Ideally ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  offered, which is much more likely to be untampered with. The best news is ... in this situation, MIT Admissions is willing to give an extension on ... quick perusal of the evaluations makes me think that the mean/median is in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and ... feels like it isn't. to see the triangle would be a gestalt, then. but is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  the Conner side much more than I did in my freshman year. It's funny to ... living spaces. In dorms where this is not the case (which is most of them ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... really fast in the most graceful manner possible. And yes, I did stumble

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  landed in the jail cell with Mercer to beat the you-know-what out of him is ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... . Are you required to take 2 or 4? Is the CI-M required (for, say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  listen in on random seminars and take the longer route home. Most ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... Charles River is in front of me. There is a chip in the sidewalk. And ... friends, Netsanet (name changed) is an Ethiopian born in the United States

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007