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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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

  

  make a person feel at home. But acquiring a sense of happiness, sense of ... Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  . The winter break of 4th grade, my dad—who had just got a new job as a ... grabbing fistfuls of it, throwing it at my sibling and giggling as I ran away ... at MIT always brings a smile to my face. It’s a small modicum of life

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  to snap these photos, I was placed right at the back of the ballroom ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  i miss home and what MIT feels like as exam season picks up

  

  the sun, binge watching sitcoms, learning a new variant of sudoku, and ... myself: I kind of want to be back at MIT right now. I have "real" friends ... about all of my stresses and admitting when I feel like I suck at MITing

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 12, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  hanging around old haunts* for the sake of familiarity and comfort. Made new ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  of hiking, climbing, skiing, etc type outings around New England ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  jump. Quads (that I don't have) would be restricted and a new range of ... 't have the months of the off-season training to rely on, but the new rule ... in to a new pace of life. New classes, new apartment, new but familiar

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... most of the day, at home only to change, shower, eat, sleep.  # I didn ... left Tucson the first time, I wanted to linger. At the start of my road

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of you about new awards, achievements, etc. However, we would prefer if you ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  service, Artisan News.  Kiara put together this nice montage of our time at ... before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... several hours out of their incredibly valuable time at the Massachu- okay, I ... champagne and toasting the class at his final lecture of every fall semester

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  some cpw events i’ll be at

  

  some of the events I'm planning to be at. If you're having trouble deciding which of 10 simultaneously occurring events to go to, here's some ... Cafe x Gothgirl IHOP: we'll have a lot of grilled cheeses (and gothgirls

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... , let’s say College N. At CPW, I struggled to decide which of the many ... Professor Talent Show, but that would mean missing a game of mafia at Burton

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  , I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness ... drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do ... me feel like I’m giving up on all those core aspects of my life. At the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  course, a stop at Crazy Dough's, one of Boston's many fantastic pizza ... Right now, I am sitting and blogging live from Boston's amazing new ... of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006