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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to transform those 24 hours into the best ever. Actually, I slept through quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in Boston, which was one of the most life-changing experiences I've ever been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... innovative thinking are taking a hit. "Because students are so busy all the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  realized that I had written something intelligent about MIT athletics the other day on CC. I really was paying attention to the game, but my feet ... 's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an ... 're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones ... are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  that goal. You just, take the next step. And sure, you might have ... you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second. Or the 999th. When I started college, I used to think these steps

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="672"] Trampoline!!!! and also the ping pong ... Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby ... ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was ... ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... ’ll invite our mutual friend Bob too” or showing up while leaning hard into the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It was a gray day. Most days were gray that month. The pandemic had just begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more-about-the-journey-than-the ... the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a week. Forgive me the tortured analogy, but this summer, I feel like I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the ... would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  acknowledgement statement, as adapted from mit's statement. the land on which i'm writing this post right now is the traditional, unceded territory of the wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the ... take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... few days before the project was due, I restarted using Lua. I ended up

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... remote graphic design work for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. We did not know this at the time, but apparently, the MIT Game Lab was collaborating

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where ... weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  (sometimes the hard way) after making it halfway through hell. Without further ... , making the effort to know, rather than meet, others has always led to the ... returning the favor. MIT feels like a completely different (and much better

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.   MIT can be overwhelming will all the advice you hear left and right. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017