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  ambition finding direction

  

  those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city ... then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition ... now i mostly just want to learn a lot and work on meaningful technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth ... Makes it hard to get where you want to go Boston Rain Come listen to my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to write some poetry, but I had a powerful urge to write a blog post and not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... reported back to Raphael, and we continued on our way, keeping a wary eye out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese over the last few years. I've gotten to a point where it's not ... exposed to a whole different kind of culture. Chinese has helped me find a ... the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  to find it in science and engineering, no matter where you are. And no ... -- it's so exciting to finally find a big group of people who get you. Not ... , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought ... symmetry, and sketching a horse to show what saddle points look like ... a seminar (so it was the only seminar to offer food).It was good to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  . What did they find so intriguing about a green tree, scary reptiles, and ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... out the door. I wanted to witness the magnificence of a Cambridge

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  was as good a time as any to have my first Boston Pops experience. I ... guarded by police, redirecting anybody without a "pass" to a dirt trail. I ... that there was a much shorter line to my left so I wandered over and sure

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  originally been from a city, but then started to find people who made his ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... have had a great experience at any of the three I applied to. Your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student, he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  for the metaphor, life isn’t exactly analogous to a marathon, where all ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... health, and even have time to have fun once in a while. Although your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  what to say). Have a lovely day. I really am sorry about the delay with the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... 't going to be recruited to a DI school or anything. I definitely initiated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... 't being spent taking a minicourse, going to a country in Africa, or becoming

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... support will allow a lot more of the stores to stay open. Harvard

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... , perhaps I would not have applied to MIT, but rather a college that was ... right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012