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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  -from-bear response kicks in. A few minutes later, I was definitively out of steam, so ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  campus, sending out emails, and posting on social media. In the end, I ... in a less intimidating way, which I feel like email can be. I also ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing ... packing or whatever instead i am sitting and lying in bed and watching all ... i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  :15 AM and then catch this train so I can be at home in sunny Harrisburg ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the

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

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it ... . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my ... . Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in ... can do anything else. Maybe that’s why I choose to go into the office

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... decked-out version of the kit. A lab notebook I'll be maintaining for 6 ... musical instruments using them very soon. A dollar bill I got in 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move-out ... out Check your bags Ask the ticketing person if you can move to an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  sneak my way into, before my cover is blown and I’m kicked out in some ... I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 ...is what i told my team at 6:30am in ... competition. it was silly, but in the best way possible, and i am hyped to see ... it reminds me of why I do hackmit in the first place <3 [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ’t take long for someone to point it out. One night, as I sat in my corner ... I’ve learned to accept that my life can be in shambles. Being a human ... place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... like MIT: when you're there, you can feel the energy running through the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so. Or at least I was pretending I was calm, cool and collected, but in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 ... out online. 3. Bhangra dancing.  It’s everywhere at MIT… at CPW, in our

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  Talking about myself is weird, but I’m sure all you out there that ... . I was born in the magnificent, but chilly, country of Canada. However ... was 3 years old. I’ve lived in Georgia for practically my whole life

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011