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• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... the beginning of December to the end of IAP, and then maybe we could pod

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  applications? Does it go through one person, or all of you? Either way with the ... broad but good question... this will be the topic of many of my blog ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  exciting, since we're finally on campus, but the good parts of campus aren ... , choosing two of three very good things is not the worst problem to have. I ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... importantly, there’d be the inevitable background static of loneliness, anxiety ... because a lot of the “college experience” media that I consumed skewed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... . So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming ... nice insight into the lives of some of our incoming freshmen. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... Little Hunger? Does the Great Hunger dissolve when you think you have found ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  of the student body actually does? ie. Did the majority of students ... hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... pretty good pointers on the subject. Janice wonders: Hi Jess, I am a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  camera roll. And well, you only take photos of the good times (or atleast I ... of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of ... renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  , being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... MIT's 28 fraternities in the fall of my freshman year--while I had no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  .com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA&t=455s livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  learning the proper ratio of coffee grounds to water, does not taste like ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... ’m doing it right. I mean, the tangible steps part of this theory is great

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred ... out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... the name we will use in all official print and email communication from