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• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... year suddenly have a new freshness to them. And with that freshness, I ... dreams come to life day by day, we’re so hyped to be building new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last ... another one! So I thought to myself, "What are these strange creations

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  more fundamental changes in worldview 6am: it’s starting to get bright ... differences in how we develop anxiety, and then they tell me to see a ... how to either solve or live with my problems in spite of everything, i

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

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... point in November, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm emailed out to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  -and-greet in April, and I compared that tiny get-together to “seeing color for ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I sometimes ran late to work in the morning just because I wanted to talk to my

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... couldn't get over how beautiful she was. And how I was...attracted to her ... Direction - my biggest regret in life is declining tickets to see them in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... weeks touring places like the Media Lab, getting lost in the infinite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

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

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... 'm unable to fit the last open section into my schedule. You know how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  it occurs to me that Dentist and Nurse are probably involved in some ... in months sometimes grow beards. ("I just had to. It's one of those ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... . This time, people could also get involved in the baking process! And it ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  asked So you know how if you want to live in a double, you have to find a ... live in MacGregor? Or will you just get randomly assigned to them as a ... promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... moving to the west coast in about six weeks to start as an adjunct lecturer ... , but the proliferation of new bits and bobs available in the past few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  . And I'm still upset that I didn't get to fully enjoy being in a ... gate at jfk... how i'd missed this[/caption] Now, you have to understand ... in an airport never fails to invoke some sort of Feelings in some

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013