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• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... ? That’s fantastic! I can relax, travel, take some classes, get an ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  “Omg. If I get in next week, I’ll be easy livin' for the rest of the ... was very, very tough. But in retrospect, I would say the sweat, doubt ... can’t be all summed up in rewards just yet. Work and motivation don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... leaves…and pork belly, in massive quantities. I ask the nice man at the ... so I’d never actually learned how to make them beyond “haphazardly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  dialogue: “Ravinder, you can do calculations in your head that the average ... there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... Cafe: breakfast in PJs. After sleeping through half the day (what'd I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I ... dinner. But in my heart, I still hadn't said goodbye to Ben Jones - until

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

   prior classes I've taught in CMS/W. Here's the course description: This course ... ; Exercising I've blogged before about how training for / running the Boston ... exercise is a core component of how I maintain and improve my physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we ... ALBUM: i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... it was awesome. They're in beta now, so if you run Windows (I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... every student we admit we know can do the work in both MIT's science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four ... you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  one painting, it can still work in another. I've been drawing for most ... this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes ... thing that gets cold in the winter are your phalanges (i always loved that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... 's quite simply one of the best games in the world. Looking the hack over, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007