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• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... Construction) - course 6's most time consuming and soul crushing class which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 15th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This ... ’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to ... vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I felt about my MIT application, and here's the post I wrote for decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the ... nice split of comics from the big two and independent distributors. Next ... (and the occassional Wii game) that I've always loved, from A Knight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous and emotional selection process, hired, from among 62 applicants (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors (not including

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we ... : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited ... decision, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... or puzzles), and very quick and witty. The only people in suits were ... material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012