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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the ... and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  traditionally stands precariously at the edge of a cliff. We don't really have ... Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... tweezers, they manipulate glowing molten glass at the end of a blowpipe into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I ... was also building up the next stage of my life at MIT. That same ... interning at my goal company in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... server. the 1st meet was at the new balance track, which is a super fancy ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I ... at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories ... a major at the end of freshman year, continue to take classes outside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New ... feelings of guilt it induced, but god. every time I looked at Flora, I felt ... every couple of hours, or however often I looked at my mom's face. making

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... talk about basically anything relating to dorm life at MIT. I'm one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... period comes around, I don't really write anything at all, leaving it to ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my ... wholesome (He's also the same professor from that slide at the beginning of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket ... legs The former meant bounding out of bed at the unacceptable hour of 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner ... "] whoosh dramatics[/caption] At the risk of sounding like an absolute nerd

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  ="ok so part of it may have been because i was jumping for three hours at my ... remember the pain of dragging myself along the wall at one point, and someone ... arm in braces floating constantly at the back of my mind; I was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of ... Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History ... memorials at the bombing site. This talk was one of 13 of The Resilient City ... Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... see the opportunities outside of a small town. I wanted a new

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024