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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  . Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in ... airtime, an hour of freedom. I can play any songs or pieces I wish, the sky

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... i’d ever heard, and the chords in the climax of permanent some three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  ="64141" /] I was the first person in my suite to arrive on campus (I arrived at 8 ... on the walls, which I liked quite a bit. Since we can't use the vast ... reason, took pictures of the bathroom, so since I am spamming photos in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... accidental habit (picked up in a small town, where I really did know most of ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  -below temperatures seeps into your bones. I can still recall the breath of the cows and ... that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... can differ so drastically between rural America and city life. I have

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make ... living in it, i can exist in mit and yet feel alienated from it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  --which is where I wrap my hair in a T-shirt and just let the T-shirt absorb ... ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... 's associated with moving out of Boston (potentially) forever. I can't count the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to ... me, was always a dream, a place where I could imagine myself at, but never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  school with an IB program in the San Bernardino school district, where I ... , where I had a Central Meeting at the Qualcomm corporate offices in one of ... on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  . This semester, I have been feeling what I can only describe as an overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let ... . We had a roller coaster, in the style where one hangs below the track

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about ... make music together, in this world where such "frivolous" endeavors are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  family in Asia, where I’d have limited Internet connectivity. The fourth ... disclaimer, I don’t think paper revisions should be like this. In fact, it ... prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  in Brigham Young's historic house (where, for the first time, I tied ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern ... the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... decision applications. I can only tell you to be yourself. MIT wants to hear

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005