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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays ... grades. But you DO have to submit it, regardless of if you have updates or ... get. I won’t have new grades by Feb. 15. What do I do?? Ya still gotta

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• 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 / 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
• 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 / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  compares to the comfort of being at home. It was nice to be around my family ... , the time you have left at home is precious. Make good use of it! Second ... of their first events to increase awareness about HBV and recruit new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in ... signs of anyone settling down. The buzz of newness still fills the air as ... , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . After three flights of stairs and at least five double-doors, you will ... kids. And at the end of it all, we shake hands, cheer for the winning ... My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  ordered 4 of these, expect epic rock band pics to come Along with the new ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were ... UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  . Sometimes, I'll even start a new wash cycle at the same time I start a dry cycle, which creates two sessions. At the end of it all, you'll be caught ... It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the ... can see in the comments at the end of the post. -You do not need to ... On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to ... during the whole ceremony At the end of the 2.5 hour long name ... official conclusion of four years at the 'tute. Toast to Tech MIT held a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011