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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  , where the food was delicious and you can watch as they make the naan and ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  in general have also just strained. I feel like I can't talk to people ... going to wave to me in the hallways. I wonder where I'm uninvited to or ... considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  decisions. Wow I love that place. Spinach can be hidden in literally any ... ’ve spent the last two summers working in places where I didn’t speak the ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• 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 ... There have been so many times these past few weeks where I've wished ... promises can't shake off the sense that I've made some amazing friends and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... redemption, where I could forge my titanium spine and emerge as the LinkedIn ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  registration, which can be a big pain. Notes for those driving in I've been ... curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); I know ... so close to Fenway that you can hear the PA system. I had a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  well. My trip to the Cape of Good Hope where I got to stand in one spot ... Zambia where I got to see Mosi-Oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls) in all its ... fact that I can not swim. I visited Soweto, the largest township in South

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  . You're the kind of person where I know I can tell you anything and I won ... stressed because I really can't imagine a world where we don't go to the same ... in the future, mi amor. sirena - Sirena!!! I don't even know where to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... in software development, art/design and civic media. I graduated from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  yearly post where I reflected on the paths I was considering taking in my ... within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER. And in ... number of letters in the word. Okay, in case I'm not making sense, here ... I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  ’m pretty sure I can breeze through this one” *Frantically googles ‘What is an ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  responses in one document so someone can read it. MIT is stressful and I don ... difficulty I've encountered. And in these moments where I did think I was ... questions in my DMs and asked publicly and on the IG live that I really wanted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  years of involvement in Burton Conner government, I've seen how staunch administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a ... put back art is key in ensuring that dorm space can be utilized as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021