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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  boarding the plane, my close friend Virginia A. ‘18* asked me how American I ... looking at it is, I’m a foreigner everywhere--people stare at me a little too long because I look different, and constantly ask me where I come

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  friends inviting them to join me at Harvard that day, turned my MIT hat ... that, I was teleported to Bill Clinton's office, where he was briefing me ... around me. Then I was teleported to Kibera, the largest slum in Africa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote ... exam, semi-confident in my answers, overhearing everyone around me ... thinking "I'm stupid. MIT made a mistake in accepting me." But I often

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  is right near the range*, so you put on a swimsuit and head on over ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can ... a meeting." Me: "Do you know when the meeting will be over?" Swim

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... kisses in the bowl on the folding table near my seat and popping them into ... “no brainer’ to me that if he could get accepted in this program, then

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  of Japanese have not nearly prepared me for surviving a foreign country ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... around, and say hi to the Amish kids selling baskets on the lawn for me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left ... office shelf. He shakes his head all the more when he hears me yell, "come

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  Hey, everyone. I've been hosed (I know, I know, tell me something ... (yes, that Gillian), who moved to Baker last semester, sent me the ... chef and he introduced me and my gluten-free situation to the other chefs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  when I walked in. Go ahead, laugh at me for overreacting and nearly ... possibly open the mailbox. Not a thing. Some higher power hates me. I called ... him?) She wasn't much better - her words to me consisted of, "Don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah ... river, right near the bathroom and the elevator, in 3rd East. After we got ... , more free food for me, even though I'm not pledging (as much as I may

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Halloween just weirds me out, man. Seriously. Yikes. Speaking of weird ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  farms we have near our house are sheep farms. But whatever. Cow poaching ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  employee at Coldstone calling me brave when I asked to try it. I should've noticed something was wrong when the ice cream pan was still nearly full. I ... actually pretty tasty, but the Wasabi-Ginger, to me just was overboard. Keep

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... the Last Dance For Me. I must say that I do like the crooners. (Michael

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  30-minute meals. People always tell me that I have no reason for ... apply was: "Where is Massachusetts? Near Los Angeles?" Obviously, I had to ... is that my family will miss me, and I, as well, miss my country, its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’s only green surrounding me. Afternoon sunshine smudges foliage yellow ... spams me with a dozen suggestions, including dat mountain of tech ... to convince me to settle down instead of pursuing a career. “I have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  -sets weighing on me or exams looming in the near future. [caption id ... , then it must be for me as well? Do I truly believe what I tell everyone who asks me why I chose CS, that it forms a good foundation for me in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  out on the opportunity. However, Bea has given me a chance to guest blog ... admissions. In total we have nearly 200 Quest Scholars on campus and about 30 ... people that have defined my MIT experience. Ask me about a class and the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013