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• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  blends with the sounds of the city around me, and I can look around and say ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... four miles of the trip stayed within Cambridge; in fact, I had walked the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall ... L '25 Nina L '24, Paula C '25, Lyne O '25, and I in issue 9 of ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  standing in front of McCormick, catching my breath because I had just seen a ... of exploration and much walking, he says, "I can see why you like it ... the bright Sun of the tropical. In Cambridge, I am a student, a friend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is ... it is! I have a number of friends who are enrolled in some aspect of ... perpetual motion machine is flawed, as I believe in the laws of physics; and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Dhabi from the sky- a city in an actual desert:   And I was home ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The ... he was usually so full of. I took this a few days before he eventually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the ... Cross and maybe even all of Roanoke. So smart in fact, that he got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  allowed me to explore the limits of what I can do, in ways that I never ... because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can ... , probably something I'm overly sensitive to, having spent a number of years in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have ... about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... ="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... as a continuation of my work in 16.831, and now I’m planning to go to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  friends, in an unfamiliar city instead of Boston or DC, but still with that ... Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  together is that I really, really want to be in all of them. I feel like this ... first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... sort of aimlessly hang out in lounges messing around. Last semester, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or ... 113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... 't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... -year students, amounting to ~20 hrs/wk of teaching. In Germany I taught special ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to ... 45 minutes in length and are conducted by admissions officers (I do one ... that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006