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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt ... part of one's identity. I love my neighborhood back in Kentucky, and its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester GPA and a D in 10.490. I’ve never gotten a D in my life, and I’m sure many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  - This album was so empowering in ways I cannot even word. I would listen ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  your essay would make the difference in a decision. I wouldn't worry ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... . even if u watch translated into english ones, i would recommend u try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  paintings." Little did I know, I would actually see these paintings in real ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  opportunity. I'd imagine that KVPY students would be very competitive in the ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

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

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I ... nerd that I am, I freaked out and ran upstairs when I saw this in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... blog I would note that I was wearing spandex with pockets (!!) from Big 5 ... the forge, in coffee shops scattered from Denmark to Arizona. I was good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• 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 ... for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• 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

  

  scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... -long void in my schedule or when I don’t have club badminton practice. But ... recording things. I tend to keep important dates and notes in my head, which

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... out. I thought that my friend Eric would find this amusing, so I took a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been ... ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  , to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few foreign words I learned were more novelties than anything else. But now

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006