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• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... mesmerized by the sudden change in scenery that nothing else could infiltrate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to really explore the fields that they are interested in ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... mysterious liquid and peppered with stray hairs. [annotation note="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... incoherent ideas floating around in my head – something about broken things ... 'knot again' in the very last week"]knotted strips.[/annotation] We would

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more ... -Homeric civilization in Greece, before city-states, which was discovered by a German guy in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... note="amazing feature, would recommend"]multiple inboxes[/annotation] in my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  moved in there was only a hexagonal frame in the courtyard, and by the next afternoon they’ve put pillars and more stuff in the hexagonal frame ...  three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  In July we posted the blogger application. 88 students began an ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was ... costumes in class! After class ended around 4pm (6.0002 recitation), I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... knocks.”  “Wow!” I replied in joking indignation, but swiveled past him ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

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

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you ... on it again in your application. will like it here. Are you social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as ... beautiful light purple that glowed orange in the sun. Unfortunately the paint ... favorite things in my room. On the left wall above (click for a larger view

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... : Turn in reports. Turn in 18.03 pset. 12:05pm-12:55: Lecture for 5 ... Shakesperian love sonnets, in full 14-line iambic pentameter. So: as a few of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009