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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell ... chaos. It was how familiar it felt.I saw so many of the same things I ... think about a lot in admissions: how geography shapes experience, but also

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The ... (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the ... getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  of the day, I would just be clocking in my 8 hours for money and that ... classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student ... move very far away (Boston). Before coming to MIT, I had lived in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  example, but I would encourage you to go around to different ones in at ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... think so. And Ryan went to the Party in Philly: I went to the admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would ... , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... place. Placed in that context, how did it make me feel? Nothing, honestly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... than I enjoyed my day job, so I did what any good MIT grad would do: I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college.[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  changed in life. For example, I realized how little I know and how uncertain ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  ), how long the cough would last (~2 weeks), and told me to avoid class ... us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... , and domestic comfort in Austin   anyways   Things I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  how grateful I was that she was still there in the last few grueling ... the world and the people in it would make sense when I needed them to ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... , they were amazed. I guess they never would have thought of that. =) Anyway, the point is, I know it's awesome...but in my world, still less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for ... years, but this would be the first time through Course 6.   How it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really ... semester had begun. Soooo....my semester....is.....AWESOME. For How I Met ... 'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... 'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in ... in their workplace to stand up and be recognized. I was really

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014