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• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... properly and I threw a couple of forms out because my handwriting was sloppy. Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  of Financial Aid, and 9 current MIT students -- can now be viewed ... ; alumni, and the generally curious), and now it's a reality. So, if you ... 'll find the blogs of MIT Admissions Officers Ben Jones and Bryan Nance, as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and ... bands come through. Within 2 miles of MIT (and within 5 subway stops), you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  On Sunday, Phil (MIT '07), Irene (MIT '08), and I (MIT '07) got lunch ... Unfortunately, Carter's job is so awesome and amazing that he can't tell us ... consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... a project and a long amount of time recovering from the all

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which was...a very low, low chance. The 8.0x1 classes (like 8.021 and 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  is outrageous and is borderline criminal), and a whole new outlook on ... years ago and graduated 14 years ago. For those REALLY counting, that ... currently is, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about that yet. BUT WAIT

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple ... , and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you ... , has a huge variety of cooking shows that are informational and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then ... [/annotation]--will stop this trip from happening), so actually leaving and having a life ... "]Mexico City.[/annotation] I love the architecture and the dense parks and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at ... experience, both from the storytelling workshop (which was amazing and I highly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch ... this year. I sung along where nobody could hear me (hopefully), and laid

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... touched, and only knew about because someone else was sweating over it ... a while, and am glad it happened the way it did. I spoke in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  -fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his ... his parents and therefore kills his father and marries his mother by ... children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch the marathon. The track was lined with cheering families and friends

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... a series of applications, and today I feel that going through so many applications, and having had all sorts of replies from them- yes, no, maybe

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student ... preserve its communities. For one, our murals are being painted over, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  ="Exploring Support Communities"]ESC,[/annotation] and other general freshman ... introduce frosh to their culture and subcommunities, which was the equivalent ... . I'm a big fan of the "testimonials" section and even wrote my own, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I've always been very open and honest with my struggles with computer science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy ... to try and learn any computer science related things, specifically out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020