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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  floor. From what I can read in Ms. Landlord, she seems like one of ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in ... Science), and probably more fields in the future. I've also taken more 18 (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... policeman in Guys and Dolls, I was able to disguise the anachronism of my hair ... Trapp in The Sound of Music, and, try as I might, I could not convince the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  in fall 2022. god, I can't wait.   ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  like I can live two lives in parallel, and only make the decision after ... 't think the silence between us Means that I can't care less I'm careless, in ... person who can't live in the present. I don't want to be the person who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  around. If I can. In the meantime, I can at least tell interested friends ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... of SOC-STD 98LH. In the end, I couldn't take Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... gets pretty cold in here. Good thing I’ve got the Wisco blood ;). Ok

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  the Art Scholars website:  “Established in 1998, the MIT Arts Scholars ... publications that students can have a varying level of involvement in! The most ... MIT. Cross Registering To fill in the gaps of the art classes we can

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  home ruminating about things i could’ve done differently in college, and ... spend in college. if i knew about covid i’d have spent more time exploring boston in the time i was actually there. if i knew everything would be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can ... a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007