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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... . For the third time in four years I found myself in the greater Boston area. In 2022 I attended CPW and live-streamed a marathon cross stitch

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a ... , and one chemistry. They're all pretty similar, structurally. In fact, I ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... one AC in the living room, under which I conveniently situated my desk

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I ... matters worse, they invited other people in my place and accommodated to

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

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... this class. Danny: At this point in the semester, we knew that we’d need

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... apologize for that in advance. --- Paul joined a fraternity, and now lives ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  different from those in the US school systems." We're quite familiar with non-US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  education and culture. Everything we do in our process is grounded by our goal ... more equitable and transparent than a test-optional policy. In the post below —  and in a separate conversation with MIT News today —  I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... space and time and see the forthcoming events from the year, in at least ... .M. (school isn’t in session yet, not that this is even slightly correlated to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  questions asked in the past two blog entries. Any questions from earlier entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... sending in supplemental materials? I think Ben said something about the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post ... graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... thought. These are the lifelong friendships they talk about in the movies

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  ’ve appeared had she made a different decision somewhere in her life. In one ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a street corner. In other universes, she’s a teppanyaki chef, a rock on a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  stressful, maybe because you're doubting everything you did in the first two years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately ... fall is exhausting because the end is in sight and you're actively making

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019