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  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  can do anything else. Maybe that’s why I choose to go into the office ... -1800s American West. “A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life,” Diaz writes of Håkan’s life. In reading applications, it is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  today!” “What do you mean?” “Because there’s no sun; the sky is gray. It ... Cambridge’s autumn comes from a bike ride in early October when I visited ... completely foreign to where I'm from. Here’s some pics I’ve taken of autumn

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... their stores, so I’d imagine it’s important for them to capture the ... drawing to my friends, they would say something like “IT’S BEAUTIFUL” but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater ... for A4) that former U.S. President Barack Obama chose to dine at A4 when ... mushroom and fontina pizza! I'm still A4's biggest hater because of all the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  I can only see the skeletal remains, there is an honoring of what’s ... opportunity to revisit on our 20th anniversary. So, what’s the legacy? How has ... true – “You can never go home again”. But here’s hoping you can at least

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... childhood— ”that’s odd, you don’t strike me as the very quiet type.” Here ... "][/annotation] last year. It’s why I’ll always be a big advocate for programs like

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  . ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families ... unusual wealth atypical of a given income level. For example, let’s say you ... expenses while they farm and sell quail eggs at the Northampton farmer’s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  Food at Jerry’s Cafe in Gallup, drove through Navajo National Monument ... barriers to higher education. After all, it’s easy to feel discouraged when ... reminds me why this work is so important. It’s about making dreams feel

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  first year and have been on my year’s class council since. It has been ... , but we winded up just using a monocle, a top hat, 1800s-era TIM instead ... Illustrator. I first removed [annotation note="scandalous, I know"]TIM’s shirt

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... blissfully unaware of Bevi’s existence, prepare to have your day ruined as I ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  process takes maybe twenty minutes at most, but it’s so essential in helping ... an exercise in color theory or proportions. It’s a chance to experiment ... remember reading about Zuckerberg’s choice to wear the same type of shirt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... the mountains. I am feeling rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep; I ... french toast (8/10) and listened to her talk about her sons and her life’s

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  science or tools or fabrication processes in this post, mostly because there’s ... it’s not clear why we should care about the problems we’re studying ... to dedicate our lives to them. it’s hard not to be convinced when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... determine the class list way before Registration Day. It’s great for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... : it’s really hard to be noticed, so i want to be the kind of person that ... magic i’ve found has been non-academic in nature. that’s part of why i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai ... , though i know it’s not their job to. perhaps they didn’t notice, or perhaps

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... many '24s," I said to Grace at one point. Maybe that's because the 2024s

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... photoelectric effect (Einstein’s Nobel prize winning experiment!), and the ... acceleration on earth’s surface  (the best pendulum designer gets a pendulum as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022