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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m ... hiked 16 miles today!! I am now suitably exhausted. I’m clean again, which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  that it wasn't a disaster, but rather an indication that he might want to ... The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26-100[/annotation] MIT's Lecture Screening Committee hosted a special free screening ... screen, either early or not. We had been working with a local publicity

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  . Every place I went, everything felt a little bit off. I don't like being ... there will come a day where I don't remember her name anymore. And that ... .  It has been a difficult adjustment and I can't say I've been handling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... Maseeh (rhymes with “classy”). A senior who could tell all about the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a ... than fun (as a result of unanticipated circumstances), and I didn't make ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  necklace that I'm wearing in the UAP/VP '06 debate. A more wishful ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . Highly recommend, and I'm super excited for them to be opening a location ... new perspective. The first thing I discovered is that the T is just a ... give a sh*t about the tunnels, about where hacks had happened, about the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  all the light. I took a walk in the evening yesterday, and didn’t really ... or a day or even just an hour, too. Just don’t think about work or THE ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  refreshing change from the familiar highways of L.A. I’m enjoying the ... personally. That’s why I’m glad to have the opportunity to head home for a few ... As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... , and that doesn't make them better or worse as a person -- but of course ... to them. A child who is deprived of input won't be able to learn. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  pleasure, don't you just become completely apathetic? i'm thinking of my ... no frills, but I'm getting bored because I have a good grasp on my own ... intimidated. I'm working at a big bank, so it's very secure (read: insular). I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  the M2 bus with a Harvard ID card! These can be obtained by signing up ... being somewhere where humanities classes aren’t regarded as a burden is ... if I’d gone to a different university. There’s just so much you can’t

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... a 60 on a test won't be the end of the world in the same way. Also, if ... note="Intro to Python, which isn't going be a thing anymore but they

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  beautiful. I was amazed that I actually got a decent picture. I think I'm ... denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too ... place 24s in virtual dorms and give us a sense of[annotation note="I'm in ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  importance and value of having a mentor. I couldn't say any of this two years ... have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  MIT network. Basically, if you had a smart phone on 3G, you couldn’t ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... fact, I go through a similar thought process when I'm the point person

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don't really remember what happened, but it doesn't seem like too much of a ... advanced into the Union. And, hey, really, there wasn't supposed to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006