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• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  school night at 3:00 am the following day? I planned most of the trip in ... of the highway, whose owner took us gridlocked townies as a business ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Washington Post study. The May graduate of Central High School was accepted ... Department of Defense English schools. ''It's really fun moving, actually,'' he ... Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and ... school, I felt like I had found the one. I dreamed of exchanging vows on ... freshman year of high school, I was in an on again off again relationship

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  you. That was just Thursday. That was my least busy day of CPW ... in the midst of a busy time in the semester? What does it say to the ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  tableware we brought with us, so many of our meals were made using this rice cooker. These meals were mostly just a variation of chicken/beef, rice, and a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  high schools). Others, like yours are pretty small. Some of the students ... population of home-schooled students here and others with non ... for MIT are also the valedictorian of their high school. Many times

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  orientation, and one of the speakers asked, “How many of you thought high school ... school and work achievements. I talked to a lot of people whenever I was ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023