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• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  thrive in a cook-for-yourself community. H offered up some kitchens and ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Luke Plummer

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  is like a little universe, and every time I listen this album never ... I like music. A lot. And I like telling other people about the music ... to [insert mildly obscure musician here], and their random album from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this ... courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  , every essay that I wrote left me more and anxious about whether I was ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full ... . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  Institute," I must admit that I would have thought to try that. So after I ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  Junior-Senior P/D/F, and they can't satisfy any Institute or departmental ... beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major ... trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in ... with me and my family, you might get confused and think you were at an ... somehow reflect or resemble them in some shape or form, and I think students

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to… [annotation note="Synthetic materials like polyester melt and smell ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... ’re often the place of absolute highs and lows, where epiphanies have occurred

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... about girlhood and math competitions--it's under my full name, and it ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016