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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  is so much to do left in the city. We didn't have the chance to travel ... : This is a very very very privileged epiphany to have, but being in a ... neighborhood as White-passing only learning Spanish in a classroom--there is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  " from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... ." I think honking is a sacred activity and this sort of socially ... office's view. Evidence is below In case you're not convinced, check

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  presented to prospectives as like "here, this is a fun thing that may ... Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim ... Revere Park is fun to explore as well; there's a great waterfront area

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... ; - - - - - - - - - -   In the Maseeh floor 2 dorm room, there is a desk. And a lamp. And ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  MIT is a really stressful place.  Class just started less than one ... electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge.  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... ” is not a defense of neutrality, because algorithms aren’t neutral ... FAQ): Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  take additional chemistry courses in the future. (3.091 is a good course ... very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so ... have predicted from the size of 7.012 in the fall - is small. We had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  everything that matters is in a blind spot and you compare just the shallow ... are the same and it’s funny how easy it is to overlook a lifetime of ... , shrivels quietly in a blind spot. There is some unsaid expectation when it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  home is much more sparse and it makes me miss my old room in Mac ... Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... different teams, who had a lot of interesting questions about how our work

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  this is how your language is perceived: a string of nonsense.  You are ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few Shakespearean sonnets, maybe some contemporary pieces from a brief unit in sixth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  -around awesome person. Wednesday, Mar 1. Free day in Palo Alto! I sleep in, go to a ... biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using ... program. It's gone/is going a little something like this. Saturday, Feb 25

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed ... Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... Scientific Researches: «Blink-Free Photos, Guaranteed» (2006) Presented by N

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  izzy just stuck me in a tiktok. half of the marketing team is lowk just ... goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 ...is what i told my team at 6:30am in ... means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  combined study in humanities with either science or engineering. 21S is a ... workload like? Frankly I think the work is as much as you want to put in ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  a novel. In 2013, it was completed. In 2014, it was published. The ... trickled in, all of them looking so much more different than I remembered ... near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during ... I could have handled things. Senior year is a rough one. With a full workload, afterschool clubs, and varsity sports, the amount that is on a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  Was One" Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office ... . With that in mind, let me tell you a little bit about what my job is like ... how your UROP is going, seeing your a cappella group perform. I come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  is like 5 minutes away from my house unless you're driving a car that I ... learning how to be a global citizen, I figured that something like eating ... that, but Shana instantly replied, "In a spelling bee!" referring to our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007