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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  at MIT and in Boston. While I feel like I've taken advantage of it, I ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  !" At that point, the continued pursuit of this word is sort of pointless ... on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome. :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  ; part of it stemmed from trying to find the communities at MIT that I fit ... varying levels of social stamina, but at least for me, I need those bits of ... constant feeling that I was treading frantic water, at risk of slipping under

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  installation at the List center   Massive mural in the 6th floor of the ... disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights ... are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  Communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, like Dave, perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... one of the constitutive elements of this new borg-Ben newly arisen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... Integrative Cancer Research! Oncology has been a major research interest of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  three weeks in Southeast Asia at the end of July/beginning of August ... of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  which he explores the world reminds me of things I see here at MIT every ... rooms when people try to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all ... picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... four people who've lived in this room. many of the things in this room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  there a golden droplet at the end of the icicle? (Fun fact: Icicles form ... this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... more snow...(View of Cambridge side from Boston) Alternate question

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was ... especially at this time of life, it would be harder to be intellectually ... world” than I have ever been before, and it solidifies the idea of moving

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  process tens of thousands of documents! You should allow at least two weeks ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013