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• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  looked like a monument. I gasped aloud when the Eiffel Tower emerged from ... pastries I’d ever had: croissants, a baguette, a squishy thing, a glazed ... . We made conversation, I can’t imagine what about, mainly to feel the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  not use it for anything other than the leaderboard. A bug! I found a ... -dozen current students in a room with a bunch of pizza and soda for 48 and let them come up with a bunch of ideas for levels and build very simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... summer, where I'm doing an internship at a software company. I was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... . For instance, “Hmm, so if I mark an ethnic identity do I get a ... answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  , and an MIT alum my mother is very thankful for: (What can I say? The ... , anyway." "I'll probably be here for a while; I understand a bunch of ... , and I stopped taking pictures for a little bit. In all honesty, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... one where I remember more than about a one minute segment, nearly two ... intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... recommendations. And it's stressing me out like crazy. I had a dream the other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... where Ruby and Sapphire fuse for the “first” time again. Watching the cast ... . SARAH STILES. S A R A H S T I L E S. sarah. stiles.  Endlessly Watching a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  that you can apply for and make money from. They're a great source of ... blogpost. If singing isn't for you, then you can also join a dance group ... someone you can wave at in the hallways or DM for notes is a good way to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities ... historical challenge. Anyone from around the world can join to listen. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  grasp material when I’m forced to do it for a grade every week. We have a ... , now I can watch movies that use quicksand as a plot point and actually ... , it can be a structural element that supports a load from above. To an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... , though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  Campus for housing, I'm not on a meal plan and have to consistently buy ... a cop out for me, and for the first time I'm kinda enjoying just ... place where I'm enjoying life more, so I'll take it as a good sign. With

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  academic reason. It's one of the few shops where you can be a little more ... primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... preliminary idea of where you might be happy. (There's a very important event

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  just come from his final paper defense for philosophy and I had a ... holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  effort into crafting a specific experience for the audience. But that can ... trust, exactly, but a statement of hope. I wanted to try this, too ... cared about the taste-vs-skill gap. But I can’t say the same for musical

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in ... the ropes. If you can't make it up for an overnight visit, there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  're worrying about picking their kids up from school and how to buy a house on a ... , can you tell us any methods in planning classes for a double major ... Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a ... Square a return to Chinatown, where I bid Sam farewell Special thanks to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  was a very close third. aside from the squirrel distractions i think she ... chose the prompt "Write about a useless fact" for two reasons: I know ... conversations i regretted my decision for a solid 15 mins because i was like uhhh

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024