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• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly humanities and arts scene, particularly in disciplines like comparative media

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and giggles )"]6-9[/annotation] and minoring in [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... date. I had assumed that these took place in like February or March, but ... behind me, like when you're walking in the evening and someone who walks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or two. We were in the same project group for DEECS, the former Course 6 ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  Update on 6/26/2018: in the years since this post has been written ... compelling: there are more smart students in the world than there are seats in ... masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  : Arrived in Billings, Montana at 12:30 PM MST, on the same flight as Bowen ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... Map. Alas, nothing in the Billings area. Thankfully, Matt came to the rescue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... huge variety in what people wear to class and to what extent people care ... on clothing vs. time spent getting ready in the morning. This is known

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  The sixth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st ... 's up with my financial aid? You or someone in your family should call the ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in ... U.S. Census, about 60 million Americans live in these rural spaces

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  in my senior year after my other friend group split. Ethan, who has ... my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... bed one bath apartment in San Francisco. Taking him around the city and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the ... Bombers. it was a tumultuous and fulfilling experience in spite of numerous ... 're interested in. finding new friends who mesh with our community aside, as a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021