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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... -negotiated one of them to start in the spring. By late June, I had finalized my ... the nearby farms! I love living in a city so much – and I miss Boston

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... than you can count, I stumbled my way into regularly paying my bills ... taking strolls around the park in my walker, my summer consisted of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that I need to buy a new laptop. I do hope that my laptop can last me at ... : A lot can happen in one month. I didn’t have any experience with web ... from there you can share your work with others. I thought that the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is ... that just seemed like gross misuse of the Internet.) This is about how I ... in an airport in a totally unfamiliar city. Ask me questions. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  host realized that I was very scared of being in the city by myself and ... ; I've been advised by Ben that pictures of my shirtless boyfriend in ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  if I were a baby; when I was ignored at grocery stores in favor of ... future. I can’t help it - there’s still so many countries, cities, and wonders I want to explore and learn from. The best piece of advice I can

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  my entire life. It's of a big rainbow cat, and I've thrown in a few ... part of a whisker). I didn't want to just redo an image in a pixel ... of the Moon album covers you can find in East Campus. Hint: The highest

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can ... past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from ... the confetti traveled in both scenarios. As you can probably guess, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about ... , from my dad. but i'm not african american -- not really in any sense of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit ... genetics (15 pages) 39 pages of writing in one week, plus a test worth 20

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I ... likelihood of you buying local more often?] “Becoming a better cook” [Q ... '?] “Whatever -- anywhere the wind blows is cool” In other news: one of the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... result in instant victory--kind of like the snitch in Harry Potter, I guess ... If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... was no real grey area, but then I had a lot of friends who lived in the

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... great application I think being ranked 20th instead of 5th in your ... ). I took a lot of AP classes in high school. In fact, I took 14 of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  can tell, it’s quite useful :P This is what I've been playing with in ... when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011