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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not ... application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS classes, but not capable of taking four science classes (friend: "why are ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... representation of student life, providing prospective students and applicants with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA ... Associate Dean and Director of the MIT Office of Minority Education Di

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... Fernandez of Architecture, Professor Martin Hackl of Linguistics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015