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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it ... involved in dance, we thought we’d talk about all the opportunities to ... biannual showcase and also can participate in ADT dance cover videos Sakata

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  It has been 13 days since Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour began so in honor of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... questions in my DMs and asked publicly and on the IG live that I really wanted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends' descriptions of their IAPs in their own words.   - - - Dalia L. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  see him play. I had taught DeRon Artificial Intelligence in 6.034 when ... emerging story of his amazing record. DeRon showed up regularly in class ... had driven seven hours or so from their home in the small town of Galax

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I have already submitted my RD application, without filling in the "SAT to be taken" date. Who do I need to contact in order to change it so my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... your experiences/thoughts in nature. Throughout the course, we read a ... trees, once bloomed, typically last about one to two weeks in springtime

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  admissions officer in person. Our destinations fall into roughly three ... we invite everyone in our prospect database in a ~100 mile radius ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I answer your lingering questions left in the comments. So if you ask a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... semester classes, so I quickly ran out of room there (and maybe in a couple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school ... . But when I felt a bubbling feeling of frustration build in my chest, I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... 's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  project in a while with a few other people, and already we've spawned many ... real." a bowl is a bowl is a bowl. in the song branches, the chorus isn ... single, uber-version of myself that includes all possible good things in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the ... fire in response to external stimuli as well as to each other, there ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of ... still wouldn't get me out of bed in the morning or stop me from engaging in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  I try and tell myself that I've overcome imposter syndrome, and, in some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022