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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  being the first in your family to go to college. Sigue leyendo. The ... Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... first camps this upcoming summer. At the Assembly, we had a chance to meet

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  first statement to me was "I believe I owe you this" whilst handing me a ... YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO ... roll your eyes at us. In all actuality, I am really excited to call you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  ; Veronica Mars My wife has been addicted to this show from the very first ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on ... one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... to know if you want to stay somewhere that's not so that they can put ... . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  just as welcoming. I remember how it felt to write my first observing ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  own jargon, too, though it doesn’t seem to have as much. On the first ... four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself, "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  Classics), I was in the unfortunate first group who had to write an essay on ... ...going to the FIRST Manchester Regional this Saturday?!? (*excitement*) Who ... 't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  enough to help with that first 35 mm film screening of Howl’s Moving Castle ... . We use pairs of cue dots to coordinate them synchronously; the first ... ’s intense for a first-time projectionist. (I was originally planning to have

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  Campus east parallel; more often referred to as Walounge) in first semester ... Wailin’ Jennys - During first semester, when I was still too scared to join ... playlist, and we did. Here it is - listen to it while you read this post

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  problems, we must first look and engage with the world as is. To cover our ... . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps ... You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... 's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number, reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to say to you. it’s true. i have proof from an admissions officer (from 50

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015