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• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course ... would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic ... role in forming me into what I would be as an adult. Forged and formed

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I immediately confirmed that I would come. After that, waiting for that day to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  not yet totally fallen apart.[/annotation] Before I describe how I ... . The theme is "How Can I Keep from Singing," which is extremely apt for ... write [annotation note="in fact, i wrote around 60 poems in 60 days during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers ... in Cambridge, Massachusetts :) Jeanne and I - with Prospective '15s

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest ... ’d caught herself in a pre-college Alaskan life), and I stumbled through the ... our Thanksgiving Friday schedule, Denali and I would not miss the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  . I had no idea how unique certain aspects of my everyday life in the US ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually ... cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... week - I'll be posting one about the events East Campus will be hosting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  of confidence which I knew working in tech would bring.  # The last ... ’ in it would reject, we want.” I’d passed a lot of magazines with the ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... Wonderfriends in Walker. Go go gadget radio! Hanna and I play obscure music with ... babies, until I realize that Jose '10 across the hall would kill me for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and ... dorm.  For example, as a prefrosh, I found that I really fit in at East ... in a not-so-random fashion. How much time should I spend with my host

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  started college on the east coast, sometimes I’d text them in the evening ... 'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... Schedule In high school I went to sleep around 10:30 pm, and woke up at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... would flip almost without warning. I could write about how much I miss my ... write about how I long for another chance to buy a five-dollar boba at

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  thing I’ve ever seen. The stats for how many emails I’ve sent/received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... exciting IAP...I didn't fully understand how much there was out there ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  how I've handled it over the past four years. Four years ago tomorrow ... Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  how we didn’t know what to do. I sit in the ESP office for a while ... hindsight, I understand that running this kind of program in-person would have ... flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't as difficult as I thought it would be. Just pay your rent on time and ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012