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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome. And here's where I learned what it meant to suffer from a language barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught occasionally at my high school, which was a walking distance from where I lived ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  (which is about a mile across campus from where I live). So I decided to ... making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  need to set a lot of standards and find your balance multiple times. ew ... with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  finding a subject interesting, and actually wanting to do it; research, for ... questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  or however long it takes to do as many repetitions of "A Whole New World" as people want to do. Where: La Maisonette What to Bring: At ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  everything was virtual. But even then, people still found a way to make it fun ... CPW events going on that you won't have a shortage of things to do ... go to a college, which was my plan after high school, I'm not sure what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  ; knit a scarf I wish I knew how to knit. Anything else you want to say or ... 'm gonna do after graduation, where I want to be, etc. >.< You ... ; stuff to do with finding connections between regions of the brain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  surprised where a hallway leads you. You’ll never again get to experience ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... to that first AP introductory meeting as a scrawny rolling-backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  our best to find you a host that matched your personality, interests ... groups, to find that place where you really do fit in. I'm getting excited ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a ... , I've started to see these years in a new light. I'm starting to feel ... we want them to stop and wait with us just a bit longer. In the rush of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible ... trying to do something important with a deadline, like apply to college ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... a link to the full subject listing offered at this year's Splash!, but ESP has been renovating their website and now I can't seem to find it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  , and honestly, it can be hard to tell where to start. I spent a couple ... . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... 't remember talking to anyone who wasn't at least a little surprised at the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... credits to Rosemond D. '17 Photo credits to Andres A. '17 Photo credits to Andres A. '17 Photo credits to Jake H. '17 Photo credits to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  was now a grad student, so we had to start from scratch to find someone ... unable to continue fulfilling their role, so we were scrambling to find a ... year, we have to do a little thing called strike, where we unbuild the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024