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• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of ... their physics knowledge to train the handlers in keeping the balloons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read ... (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been ... wasn't very creative in the shows that I wanted to watch...I did binge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  forward to it. I begrudgingly took Advances in Computer Vision [6 ... year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy ... I didn't pre-register for it, I was nervous that I wasn't going to get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  move in. Messes are often made between the times janitors come to clean, and it's not always easy to determine who made them. And, face it - in ... didn't want to move too far away, because it would be too hard to get to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... typical ABC. For one thing, I have never gone to school in the US, even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... next time I need to get from a meeting in the Welcome Center to Simmons ... : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the ... screen. So many people dropped in to view the show, students and faculty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2 ... back to spend some more time in Rome and the Vatican, headed to Florence ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... to have all three during my weekend in Michigan (even had two

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  's more convenient to just stick to the norm. I've tried to get into ... task you need to complete gets time scheduled on your calendar, so you ... like I was in a snippet of Groundhog's Day. By journaling, I was able to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  , i'll request you to visit www.iisc.ernet.in/kvpy to get more info ... have to take multivariable again in MIT if I get accepted?" I'm a big ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... this is also why it is good to keep the feet dry, and wrap them in dry

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024