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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... be a perfect way to clean out my wardrobe, as well as actually ... into a quilt. This came out to twenty eight shirts, and I still kept

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student ... transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  creating robotics simulations like these. A lot of time was spent trying to ... to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about ... Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... local television, my dad mentioned the word “fridgey” when referring to a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  : Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions ... to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was ... make a portfolio, the volunteering was because I wanted to help people

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... more. And because I was finding it difficult to start up again, here's a ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... will tread lightly because I think there's a lot of things to be ... specific space. To be with this specific guy in this specific frat in a house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... and investments): Quite simply, I think that the Institute needs to do a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  I wake up with a jolt. In middle school, I used to have a recurring ... day at school only to realize I forgot to do a major assignment. I ... antagonizing me. To be able to sit and read a book or watch a movie or play a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new ... distinguish a time when I was not trying to convince myself that I actually ... , and still be so ready and willing to take in a lost, naive freshman with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  .  As a side note, in order to address my homework, I’ve developed ... require you to have a separate timer. You start a work session, you work ... , after seven sessions, I had the option to do a scuba certification dive so

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022