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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time ... passed away suddenly, and it shook me to my core that the last time I would ... times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud Arbery. My mind was overcome by the brutal and “rightfully deserved

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... . And as I’ve navigated my way through those dangerous waters, I like to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to speak on Washington Mall, the people (men and women) who allowed Betty Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... movies and actually discussing what I should do for my birthday, it was decided that I would eat seven different meals at seven new and different

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ). ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #2: Marilee Jones = Rockstar She admits you to MIT and ... personal favorite). If you've been admitted to MIT and haven't joined yet ... requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Mitra did. I think Mitra definitely did. :) Adam and I actually didn't go ... during my sophomore year, but one time we were at a dorm formal and looked at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  presentations and readings, not psets, so I didn't post anything from it. 6 ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E = methylene, I = methine). c) Label each amine, alcohol, and hydrogen by sp3 CC

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... journal, and someone I’ve never interacted with will read it, and will think ... “Well there’s evidence on both sides, like X and Y versus Z and W”. But at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  mom to come Tuesday night and bring me home Wednesday morning. Yeah ... .03 again next semester), and have packed up just about everything I don ... elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  , shake it off, and get back up again. Remember that you will survive — and ... you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this ... and our whole process. I said I deserve it all I'm wakin' up at 6 a

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small ... glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... the fact that it has been that long, and it's way longer compared to ... miss you, h306 i'm gonna miss east campus, and all of it's weirdness

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... ’t know. But, people say that a picture is a thousand words, and talking ... enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... take on the color of sunlight and fire, blue skies blow friendly breezes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much ... include billowing cloudscapes, mystical cats, and sharp black shadows ... 'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022