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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  myself a pass. Go to a coding conference - Accomplished...kinda? I bought ... as a kind of win. Go to at least 3 museums - Incomplete. I actually ... since everyone in the house was super excited to go and really had such a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  thought about it before, but it seemed like a perfect way to really see a ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to ... COVID-19 spikes. Then, sophomore fall came around and, due to a series of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to ... "]the answers to those questions,[/annotation]and this place feels like a home and not a brief and wild summer camp, and so I’m starting to be able to hear

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a ... need to go somewhere that will give you a scholarship. I'm going to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole ... interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just ... we did not know what we would be able to achieve by creating a short

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  -year-old a short bus ride away. One day, while I was explaining how to add ... . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... partner and I were supposed to teach a group of kids (ages 6-8ish) about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... was now a grad student, so we had to start from scratch to find someone ... we had to take a break from discussing the main event to focus on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  best to welcome everyone.[/caption] There are a lot of things I expect ... institutions) to feel a little less far away. These teachers were so excited ... to MIT and just recently graduated. They all spoke about him with a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... ," she said. Startled, I tried to picture her in a doctor's office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to write some poetry, but I had a powerful urge to write a blog post and not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  that spiky people tended to interact with others in a logical and ... to a soft person throughout college, and that was probably the source ... at a house party and for some reason everyone else wanted to relocate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  have to leave the house to carpe diem. Help make MIT a better place ... 'm taking that as a lesson that I need to worry a little less and just enjoy ... Thursday, I present to you a visual recap of all the neat things I've done

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff ... assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth deciding whether or not I was going to fully major in computer science with a

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

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the ... am happy to announce that, in case of zombie invasion, we will have a ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008