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• 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 / MIT Life

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

  

  memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... moment in our relationship was the outcome of that spelling bee, although I ... sister before she headed back to college in Baltimore. I value family

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  between things you can control and things you can't, and that where you ... 's the only one you will ever have. I believe in you. Good luck.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT ... think it really struck me that physics was hard when I got this problem in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  bed. Some students have futons in their rooms you can sleep in. I am in ... that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... you should check in). Happy travels, and we can't wait to see you this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016