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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  , and I’m too impatient for that. What else would you like to know about ... Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  ") to that point. Who would have thought that many years later I'd be ... talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . I tried old math olympiad problems that would have otherwise remained ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  presence or personhood, and how their issue manifests itself.  I have lived ... I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at MIT. I've talked about the MIT Bubble on the blogs before, but damn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  've ever proposed or worked on. I didn't want to think about how my entire life I have felt like an alien. How even my parents and my family ... why I would get so upset when strangers on the street in Ethiopia would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... ? I spent all of Sunday crafting an essay about how Alexander was most ... -hundred-page book of raunchy Greek myths, and how I could read it with a bit more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  , "who would know anything about this?" and i said "no one who's now here ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a ... 1: "Any luck with 16b?" MIT Student 2: "I used erf." MIT Student 1: "ERF?! Oh, God, I haven't thought about that since 18.03*..." MIT Student

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT blog and I'm in Switzerland. I could ramble philosophically about MIT life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... shoqan[/caption] Something I really appreciated about Shoqan was how ... the students’ questions. I was surprised how subjects like AP Chemistry

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  ? Well, maybe. I would say that it depends whether or not you consider cats to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... to work and just sits on your keyboard and stares at you, which I would

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  and I are catching up, oh, how was Asia, it's been a while, yeah, 4 ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what I think I can/should do. “Oh yeah, I’ll take 60 units this fall, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  differences and work hours, and when he left I didn't know if those plans would ... like people would need. I declined picking up long-term tickets, and I ... to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of ... whatever seemed to fit the bill for an application. I can't stress how vital

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  them. ;) Question Two Faye asked, I'm wondering how doable a double ... Question One Elizabeth asked, I have one... I was talking to my dad ... said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  opportunities that open up (how I heard about this one), and I still have card ... UROPS! If I didn't get this particular job, I would have gone with the ... During the Meet the Bloggers party on friday, I sent the following

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... so back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew instantly that I would have to ... The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012