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• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... ’s like I’m putting on a persona. Every word sounds fake. Or maybe I should

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  looked fake, but, my, children can be gullible. Some of those screams were ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America ... country from San Francisco to Washington D.C., stopping at high schools to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  is in store: Saturday San Francisco/Bay Area meeting in the home of ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ...   you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... adversity, and have a bunch of cool interests. you're social, but mostly like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air ... , if you see people in camouflage carrying fake rifles, that's us) as

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... heart plummets from my chest onto San Francisco International

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  San Francisco, where I'm spending the last 5 days of my IAP. I arrived ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen of MIT's new president, a big Red Sox winning streak... a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  edition. Thankfully, a lot of the more famous things about San Francisco ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... working with la Fundacion San Alonso Rodriguez, an NGO  that provides ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  Hello MIT Class of 2014! Here are some things that admitted students ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... would look with that gold hoop, or that fake green diamond stud with that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I honestly welcomed the onslaught of final projects and exams since it made me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, San ... Hello, MIT Class of 2015! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  't know why in Spain they refer to cards as carné instead of tarjeta for ... del bar, fuimos a la Chocolatería San Ginés. Este es un lugar famoso ... Sol, el Teatro Real y más. Fuimos a la Chocolatería San Ginés otra vez

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -crazed city of San Francisco. No matter how many tech companies I sent a resume ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025