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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  back and re-read the sample posts that I applied with a couple of times ... Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  reminds me of cooking in the Tang Hall kitchen and looking out my window ... of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  -King's Programme at the University of Cambridge, taking courses in "The Behavioural ... More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15 (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this ... and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... **: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What’s the name of the organization you’re working with again

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  Back when I was about seven I dreamed of being an astronaut. Of ... a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting ... magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  , University of Michigan, Duke, the Naval Academy, or UF, we still had what we ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war ... are my stepdad, you are probably laughing so hard you just fell out of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  halls of Building 1 until I burst into my classroom. Building 1 to Simmons ... As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024