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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  . It just meant now, instead of waiting for things to happen to me, I was ... the analogy to freshmen entering college for the first time, and how ... restaurants). A few days after responding to the ad, I went in for an interview

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... mostly for me to get information on the role rather than anything on their ... , we use the summer months to start planning for Haunt! The summer months

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  nod with feigned interest.  Later, the boy apologized to me for what ... to stay polite? Was it his fault for asking me a racist question, or ... someone worthy of respect and agency. I wish for all of us to love and be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most ... gone wrong. And I had so much moving and growing to make up for ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... year, or next ten years, or twenty. Excited to find out. For now, going ... I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... the going got rough and we asked for help on how to put everything ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... that of Tim Draper, who embraces the idea of countries trying to help

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a ... summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  having just finished registering for classes. He is ready to go and succeed ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... divisions, beginning from very rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  . (hosed = MIT slang for being so busy that your to-do list takes up an ... because I will be spending Thursday night packing for my week long trip to ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... . (including blogging, questions omnibus, replying to comments, et al.). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  link to biology content on the OCW site. For students who choose multiple ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  than you have to. and if that is you, you are incredibly valid for ... , it’s hard for me to go back and think about all that happened, to try ... untouched for nearly eleven months. I’ve done enough editing to make sure that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use ... coated pavement was the highlight of the trip for me, and I’m excited to ... , and had Nate bail me out), I took off for Yaqui Pass to get some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  myself to do it, thinking naively that I could be her for a night, but all ... make more friends in other dorms. But I'm not going to do it for the ... I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT -- after you ... choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling ... 's Entry: Chris wrote an awesome entry earlier today for admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you ... and I kid you not, it took a solid 90 minutes for my legs to thaw

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018