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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... me, was always a dream, a place where I could imagine myself at, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  would be good to have at least a rough outline of what you'd like to see ... as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me ... generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it ... , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day, buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  lucky enough to secure the Clark Educational Center at South Miami Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who works at the hospital. It's a great space, and the hospital served some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  happily ever after. On the downside, the sight of stairs makes me foam at ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  out of all the places there are to be at this time, they chose to be ... hours and hours just talking and shirking off work. At one of these ... where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  wake up at like 8 or 9 every day regardless of when my classes are. Stop ... and listen to music at the same time. I'm really envious of the people ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... ) today and saw three of my favorite people at MIT, all of whom I met ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... sound and lights and set and orchestra. Finally at the end of IAP we had ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  slow exercise at the center of the floor"]adagio.[/annotation] We also ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... spend time with friends. 2. I'm continuing my UROP at the MIT Education ... Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  look back at how different i was as a freshman. a lot of the things that ... choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... eat at any of Harrisburg's otherwise fine pizza establishments anymore ... of the day had come half an hour earlier at Broad Street Market, when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was ... (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016