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• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  started skating in my freshman year of high school, and skated synchro ... janet: when my friend Eleanor floated the idea of a guest blog about ... that yeah we were ahead of the times etc etc"]hashtag alysa liu and co my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a campus with 5000mph winds stripping away every last ounce of warmth your

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (more commonly known as "CRLS" or

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of ... us. Each school or district comes with its own set of generalizations ... to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) faculty. The dinners are ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the basement, there were huge stacks of paper, though apparently there were a lot

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  high school. Calc consisted of homework every night, to be collected ... time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  off. Most of my high school friends have changed paths, too. A sworn ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  creeping over the steeple of the church as I arrive at school. 4. I will ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  ergonomic--Scandinavian design for the win!--and I have a great view out of my ... It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... hose. -Back to story- As school starts to take off, I'm slowly settling

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... there. I taped my favorite pair of running shoes back together with it too ... selected the schools I applied to

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... second. Certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge ... like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled ... mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  even more eventful day. I went to talk to two groups of high school ...   To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011