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• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  seeing the choices people make, the ways in which people grow, the ways in ... always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  . But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical ... -Peruvian fusion. Apparently the eighth best restaurant in the world?? Exhibit B ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  Nina Lutz for multiple hours in editing, to my family for being awesome in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for ... honest, I could try to write about everything that has happened in this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  standardized version of Tagalog is Filipino, which in theory includes vocabulary from other Philippine languages, but in practice is more like a synonym for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings ... , and loved it! So in an effort to encourage you to go around Boston (or ... what could be. Just like with Dali and surrealism in general, I feel like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  : it’s in Boston! (well technically Cambridge, but you know, still the ... other universities aren’t necessarily in cities or around many other ... clubs participate in. For example, MIT Chinese Students Club annually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was in a double, but this year we do have people in doubles, so i am now in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I… full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet ... ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... to grow old and live in the same neighborhood and raise our kids and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager ... shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  that tools will appear if the idea is planted in you. Learn about poetry ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... missing something. Knowledge and practice do exist in both places, but it

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  in Cambridge, a new land of activity and opportunity, all the while discounting and dreading the place I'd lived in and known since I was a small ... the same principle of a resident versus a tourist. If you live in New

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  has been closed down. Yes, that's right: the Subway in the Student ... far, the best eating place in the entire Stud - nay, perhaps the best on ... meals, and I savored every delicious mouthful. And now, in the blink of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... ’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding, the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014