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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  definition, in a constant state of flux, subtly altered by every new ... 's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing ... 't care about it. And new students don't ever learn that there was a change ... effect until they're gone. They take pride in, and memories out of, what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  note="We have already emailed everyone who expressed an interest in ... ; January 6th is simply the new deadline for everyone applying during this ... decided to shift the deadline in part to provide[annotation note="As well as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  my laptop in my lap, and read whatever catches my eye on the New York ... in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I ... in just a sweater and sweatpants. short sleeves and shorts weren

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  biggest reasons that I declared my double major in CMS so early (I am ... 6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation in CMS. There are four projects of increasing sizes, and all of them

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... section leader position in a weekly Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL). Section leaders are the three students in their second year of GEL ("GEL 2's

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  dorm? I was temped in New House during Orientation, but found myself ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of differing racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Students enrolled in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In ... try something new in-person in ages, and it felt great. [caption id ... is so different from the version of me that last posted back in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... 's the beginning of a new application season, that I'd rewrite an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It's keeping someone that's impossible in ... on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  still very much adapting to the new culture and life in general. I have ... First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... I’m officially 2A, planning to minor in Energy Studies and Theatre

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  people tell me that math is important in learning computer science (drawing ... something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  to new basketball plays in fractions of a second. it turns out the kind ... strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ... new people online (i ended up being number 42/100). they mentioned that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022