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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  difficulty for that to actually matter. also, i think shadows is the best ... first thing i did after returning to campus was looking for the expansions ... and more calculations to the spreadsheet, like a sheet for spirit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on ... cost and benefit of that, too.  I’m trying to define my learning goals

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for ... significantly more likely to take longer than four years to graduate. For instance

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle ... upperclassman at a lunchtime barbecue. I apologized to her for not talking much ... lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  city I am learning to love tolerate. I'm living by myself for the first ... other interns and I decided to get rush tickets for a Saturday 1pm showing ... concert I went to a concert by myself! I've been doing this for a while but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  students, but rather for union employees. Trying to act polite, I became ... accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad ... only a few for the blog. We are warned not to continue forward, but ... pictures. On the hike back to the cars, we stop for some snowtubing. It was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... a reward for being the first person to arrive at spring registration ... note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... phone service, and no problem sets. I went to Powell's, brought my old

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another ... and CPW--if you'll be on campus for CPW and want to meet up, email me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  of my freshman year. The prompt was to write for ten minutes about MIT ... , except for the fact that it's a lot more applicable to real life. I ... how to write to y'all. I think it stemmed from some internal rubric

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , Snively 0. I started looking for a place to stash my skates but there wasn ... settled in to wait for the show. It's 8:00 PM at this point. The lighting ... 're waiting, we have some folks that would like to thank you for coming by

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2013! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an offer which I gladly accepted (taxis from Logan to campus often cost ... , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... I struggle, I must leave my room To look for help before it is too ... mean; my heart's reeling. - To be honest, I saved the best for last. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one-semester class) and runs for half a semester. i'm especially looking forward to 14 ... perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  here waiting for you tonight. Kthxbai. There are two things I want to ... failed to gain crucial first down and it cost his team the game. But that ... with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  made valiant efforts. When I asked for a word, they switched to English ... charged tourist prices in Latin America, which to me was wildly rude and out ... enough to get to Killarney early. Alas.  I was stressed for parts of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... the one path i know to avoid at all costs   iv. recently i ... to conclusions without worrying too much about rigor. for example, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022