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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... !" At that point, the continued pursuit of this word is sort of pointless ... , like the crowning of a new king and such. By the way, my commentary on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  puberty, and I wasn’t always in the greatest mood. I was at a point of ... intersected with notions of romance for the first time. I was at a point where I ... recognized when I looked at my parents or any set of couples, but as something

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  tiny bit of information about using computer services at MIT. Now, if ... various programs you can download for Windows. (There are tabs at the top of ... Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  pull an entire tree out of the ice at Fresh Pond: [caption id ... refund to almost cover one month of rent + a new dresser + a new desk chair ... Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  better? This has always been a pet peeve of mine, and, at this point ... is really in the art where the questions sit at the forefront of my ... 've often thought of writing as this kind of deeply lonely task. You sit at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  Junior year in May. Crazy. Most of you reading this, assuming anybody is ... creating a month of virtual events for admitted students. Having recently been laid off (along with 15% of the country) I volunteered to provide

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  of what that says about our coolness it definitely implies that at ... , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus ... , I am still discovering something new every day. Recently, I’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... portal gets updated for new information (if it haven't already!). Eventually, the portal will include all kinds of cool things like CPW

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  reason and science also marked the creation of social Darwinism and new ... size of a printer, except that unlike my printer at home, they do what ... opened my backpack, pursing my lips at the sound of the zipper. A friend I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  support me, lots of new friends, and BC's reopening to look forward to, i ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the ... those of you who don’t see your interests aligning with engineering at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try ... , approved my classes, and (essentially) said Give it your best. At the end of that semester, I went back to him with grades I was proud of, and a new

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life. There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  grasp, but a part of being a student at MIT. Being a freshman, my initial ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at ... you choose to throw at yourself. It's just six units of free credit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006