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• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  done by a friend, an email from Petey about my CMS.400 final project ... lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months. Temporary as it had been, my room was a home and a safehouse. With a west

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a ... home from a train station past midnight when we realized the taxis took a ... participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  . From a blogger to the greatest people ever, Thanks Guys. P.S. It really ... and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  mountain spring). My two cousins collect water from it in a plastic bottle to ... , collecting water from the river. Rain itself not clean!!! A lot of people ... as these to simply get from point A to point B, including to collect

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... Patrick the Irish, who lives a few doors down from me, fixed his server. He

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... few pieces of jewelry, one of which was from a local seller who I ended ... her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from ... to flower from the turgid, algebra-swollen loam of a QM textbook ... nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  often recommend that non-traditional applicants take some courses at a community college or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom ... recommendations from instructors, supplemental recommendations from employers
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  googled your therapist's name and it came up in a blogpost from 2017 where ... feel like a wound that will never heal.   the problem— grief goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony ... . Tonight, I took a break from the work I'm continuing to do with the ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  make sure that you use a name or alibi that you're ok with being public. Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... . Fire away! Eyy I hope you have fun!! So when I was a prefrosh, MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  glaze over with the years and shine in the memory of a moment you cannot retell, what do you see? And what will you forget? A bit less than 4 years ago I came to MIT. After a period away, I recently came back to wear a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  anywhere from 5 to 15-ish people. The day before the career fair, a group of ... drastically different from high school. You get closer to each other a lot ... powder, mix well before cooking. Grab a few bananas from banana lounge

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off, Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  as a senator from East Campus) was to provide the kind of example for ... Cabral '07. I have a ridiculous expression on my face. I don't photograph well, do I? All of us at the debate. From left to right: Dwight, Chris

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  us. A letter, a phone call, notes from people who know you well ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  hours from sheer exhaustion. I had run a half marathon out of sheer force ... ran cross country from something like 2nd-6th grade, so this was not my ... vivid memories from childhood is nearing the finish line of the end of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  dressed up as a motley crew of 7 characters from Doctor Who... plus a Spaceman Spiff, Finn from Adventure Time, a gypsy/Peruvian, and a MIT student ... looking both awesome and silly in front of a TARDIS poster imported from

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  to realize that I'm the furthest thing from a fighter... and I started ... bad living right in the heart of Kenmore across from a frozen yogurt ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012