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• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... at Subway that I had on March 12th of 2005, the crumbs of which I have ... Boston a doormat at least twice in this entry. Appendix I: A map of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... inheriting the position. Except at some point the French house of Foix merged ... whatever I wanted!!! Another fascinating aspect of teaching at the CFP was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  , our residential life culture is a rich component of being a student at ... cantos at a time. Inspired by a close friend of mine (who has an ENTIRE SHELF of Isaac Asimov books at home) I went on a science fiction binge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  I guess it shows that even after three years of being at MIT, I ... we were out so late at night. Well, this is the kind of thing you ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  a spectacular job at telling the many different stories of MIT as ... , I suspect, is because at least some of the commentary is moving to ... more than a distant reading of the blogs (at least, for this particular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  privileges and borrow any of these materials for a few days at a time. There ... for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Community, so the Rainbow Lounge at MIT is the home to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  Engineering! At the beginning of this semester, we were given a problem, a ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... angle grinder. The sparks flew directly at my face, and it was kind of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  purpose of this is to help you "network" with alums and find jobs at their ... restored at my house -- I hope everyone who is still without power (and ... brother off at his college yesterday (classes start today), and as far as we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  train at one of the suburban stops, you weren’t getting on at all; there ... : do be sure that if you have a flight at Logan at 6:45pm that you leave ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  grew concerned at the sounds of what appeared to be an operation devoted ... dramatically. I don't think they planned any of this out before they did it. At 9 ... terrible day that started at 7:30am after 3 hours of sleep. But really

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , compelling portrait of what kind of student and person I was at age 18. If I ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  7 at 11 PM on Friday. · When I visited the headquarters of the ... been peacefully resting in the comfort of my sleeping bag back at Ashdown ... days living at MIT, taking advantage of everything I could without having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  (take advantage of pass/no record and see your friends at other schools ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... —the company that created one of my favorite arcade games, Castle Crashers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  -year academic experience at MIT. The initiative, which is ongoing, has been considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . But at the end of the day, MIT students are, first and foremost, MIT ... fundamentally MIT-y, which makes it unique and different. At the end of the day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016